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Amarillo Reads

An Evening with David Wright Faladé

AMARILLO READS returns with a focus on titles by award-winning author and former Texas Panhandle resident, David Wright Faladé. 

Faladé’s titles include the narrative history Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers, the young adult novel Away Running, and most recently, Black Cloud Rising.

The New Yorker chose Fire on the Beach as one of its notable selections, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch named it one of its Best Books of 2001.
Away Running was named an Outstanding International Book by the US Board on Books for Young People and was selected by the Junior Library Guild and the Texas Library Association for its high school reading lists.

Set during the American Civil War, Black Cloud Rising is a novelization of the life of Richard Etheridge and the African Brigade, a regiment comprised of freed slaves who campaigned against Confederate hold-outs in coastal North Carolina during the Civil War.  With powerful depictions of the bonds formed between fighting men and heartrending scenes of sacrifice and courage, Black Cloud Rising offers a compelling and nuanced portrait of enslaved men and women crossing the threshold to freedom.

A former Fulbright Fellow to Brazil, David Wright Faladé is the 2021-22 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow of the NY Public Library’s Cullman Center for Writers. His work has been recognized by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Texas Institute of Letters. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois. 

Join us for good conversation about great books!
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