Al Young
Al Young is a California novelist and poet closely associated with the San Francisco Bay Area multicultural literary scene whose fiction celebrates jazz, Black vernacular culture, and the California experience.
Works
- SnakesNovel about reconnection and love between estranged childhood friends
- Who Is Angelina?Novel exploring identity, ambition, and racial consciousness of a young Black woman
- Sitting PrettyNovel about a middle-aged man learning to live fully while caregiving for his mother
- Ask Me NowNovel tracing interconnected lives through music, time, and personal transformation
- Seduction by LightScience fiction exploring artistic intimacy, surveillance, and spirituality in the future