Summer in Spanish Harlem, and Winston Foshay (Tuffy to his friends) is looking for a way to survive the year. Tuff is the second novel by Man Booker Prize-winning American author, Paul Beatty. And oftentimes her corrections had the effect of reducing him to ethnic errata.” And if his speech, filled with double negatives, improper conjugations of the verb 'to be', and pluralized plurals (e.g., womens), was wrong, then his thoughts were wrong. For Winston language was an extension of his soul. Her notions of English didn't feel right in his mouth. Dunleavy had been Winston's teacher last fall when he attended the GED preparatory program at the community center. Most recently, Beatty edited an anthology of African-American humor called Hokum and wrote an article in The New York Times on the same subject. His first novel, The White Boy Shuffle received a positive review in The New York Times, the reviewer, Richard Bernstein, called the book 'a blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life.' His second book, Tuff received a positive notice in Time Magazine. In 1993, he was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. This would be followed by another book of poetry Joker, Joker, Deuce as well as appearances performing his poetry on MTV and PBS (in the series The United States of Poetry). One of the prizes for winning that championship title was the book deal which resulted in his first volume of poetry, Big Bank Takes Little Bank. In 1990, Paul Beatty was crowned the first ever Grand Poetry Slam Champion of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He is a 1980 graduate of El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California. Beatty received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA in psychology from Boston University. Paul Beatty (born 1962 in Los Angeles) is a contemporary African-American author.

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