Teju Cole

Christiane Steckenbiller (Colorado College)

Ed. by Helen Rachel Cousins, Birmingham Newman University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.5: African American Writing and Culture of the United States.
Vol. editors: Philathia Bolton (University of Akron), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), A Yemisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

Dates

Born 27 Jun 1975
Activity 2007-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Cultural Identities

African American

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Photographer

Other

Art Theorist/ Historian/ Critic
Essayist

Resources

Cole's Works

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On his personal website (tejucole.com), Teju Cole describes himself as a writer, art historian, and photographer. The author of the critically acclaimed novel

Open City

(2011), and the novella

Every Day is for the Thief

(first published in Nigeria in 2007, revised and reissued in the United States and United Kingdom in 2014), is also the photography critic for

TheNew York Times Magazine

(since February 2015), and currently the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College, New York. His creative work and cultural and political commentary have appeared in

TheNew York Times

TheNew Yorker

TheAtlantic

Granta

TheNew Inquiry

, and several other high-profile magazines. He has displayed his photographs in exhibitions in New York and India, and has published his photo portfolios in a…

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Citation: Steckenbiller, Christiane. "Teju Cole". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 January 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13650, accessed 18 April 2024.]

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