by Kia Corthron
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NOTE: In chapter 4 of the 1941-42 Prayer Ridge section, I mention A Handbook of the Sign Language of the Deaf: Prepared Especially for Ministers, Sunday School Workers, Theological Students and Friends of the Deaf by J. W. Michaels, and then I proceed to refer to excerpts from it. The book was published in Atlanta, 1923, by the Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention. However, I have never seen it so, while the book exists, my references are purely fictional.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kia Corthron has written many plays, fifteen of which have been produced nationally and internationally. For her body of work for the stage, she has garnered the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, the Simon Great Plains Playwright Award, the United States Artists Jane Addams Fellowship, the Lee Reynolds Award, and the Otto Award. She has also written a bit of television (Edgar and Writers Guild Outstanding Series awards for The Wire). The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter is her first novel. She grew up in Cumberland, Maryland, and lives in Harlem, New York City.
