Author Event: Daniel Black

Page 158 Books is excited to welcome best-selling author Daniel Black to celebrate the release of his novel, Issac's Song--out Jan. 14th.

The beloved author of Don’t Cry for Me and Perfect Peace returns with a poignant, emotionally exuberant novel about a young queer Black man finding his voice in 1980s Chicago—a novel of family, forgiveness and perseverance, for fans of The Great Believers and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.

Daniel Black is an author and professor of African American studies at Clark Atlanta University. His novels include Don't Cry for Me, an Indie Next and Book of the Month Club pick, as well as The Coming, Perfect Peace and They Tell Me of a Home. He is the winner of the Distinguished Writer Award from the Middle-Atlantic Writer's Association and has been nominated for the Townsend Prize for Fiction, the Ernest J. Gaines Award and the Georgia Author of the Year Award. He was raised in Blackwell, Arkansas, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.