Wayétu Moore (born 1985) is a Liberian-American author and social entrepreneur. Her debut novel, ''She Would Be King'', was published by Graywolf Press in September 2018, and was named a best book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly & BuzzFeed. The novel was positively reviewed by ''Time Magazine'', ''The New York Times'', and ''The New Yorker''. Moore has published work in [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/06/world/africa/africa-independence-year.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage#moore ''The New York Times''], ''The Paris Review'', ''Guernica Magazine'', ''The Atlantic'', and other journals. She was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship for fiction in 2019. Moore's memoir, ''The Dragons, The Giant, The Women'', was named a 2020 New York Times Notable Book, a Time Magazine 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020, and a Publishers Weekly Top 5 Nonfiction Books of 2020. In 2011, Moore founded a publishing house and nonprofit organization, One Moore Book, which publishes and distributes books intended for children in countries underrepresented in literature.
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Wayétu Moore (born 1985) is a Liberian-American author and social entrepreneur. Her debut novel, ''She Would Be King'', was published by Graywolf Press in September 2018, and was named a best book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Entertainment Weekly & BuzzFeed. The novel was positively reviewed by ''Time Magazine'', ''The New York Times'', and ''The New Yorker''. Moore has published work in [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/06/world/africa/africa-independence-year.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage#moore ''The New York Times''], ''The Paris Review'', ''Guernica Magazine'', ''The Atlantic'', and other journals. She was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship for fiction in 2019. Moore's memoir, ''The Dragons, The Giant, The Women'', was named a 2020 New York Times Notable Book, a Time Magazine 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020, and a Publishers Weekly Top 5 Nonfiction Books of 2020. In 2011, Moore founded a publishing house and nonprofit organization, One Moore Book, which publishes and distributes books intended for children in countries underrepresented in literature.
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