21st Century: Query 150 (Tommy Orange)
“The more specific your details, the more universal your story.” ~ Tommy Orange , author of There There , at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference, November 23, 2019. Orange is a novelist and a writer from Oakland, California . His first book There There was one of the finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize . Orange was also the recipient of 2019 American Book Awards . Orange is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma . He attended Institute of American Indian Arts and earned the Masters in Fine Arts. He was born and raised in Oakland, California and currently resides in Murphys, California , where he lives with his wife and son. Although this statement may seem contradictory, how might it be true? Name a story, play, essay, or poem that shows this statement to be true or false. Explain.