The New Yorker’s “Lost Giant of American Literature” and the prism of race By Ebonye Gussine Wilkins• Story Craft• April 5, 2018 You could say there’s a certain symmetry to the fact William Melvin Kelley, the black “lost giant of American literature,” as The New Yorker called him earlier this year, was “rediscovered” by a white writer. One question could … Read more