Constructing a Nervous System

Constructing a Nervous System
AuthorMargo Jefferson
PublisherPantheon Books
Publication date2022
ISBN9781524748173

Constructing a Nervous System is a 2022 memoir by Margo Jefferson. It won the 2023 Rathbone Folio Prize.

The book was a finalist for the American Library Association's Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction in 2023. and the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

References

  1. ↑ "2023 Prize". The Writers' Prize. Retrieved February 11, 2024. We are delighted to announce that the Rathbones Folio Prize Book of the Year is Constructing a Nervous System ...
  2. ↑ Shaffi, Sarah (March 27, 2023). "Margo Jefferson wins 2023 Rathbones Folio prize". The Guardian. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  3. ↑ Chakraborty, Abhrajyoti (May 1, 2022). "Constructing a Nervous System review – a deeply personal account of black female identity". The Observer. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  4. ↑ Sandstrom, Karen (April 22, 2022). "In critic Margo Jefferson's memoir, a life is refracted through art". Washington Post. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  5. ↑ Young, Molly (April 12, 2022). "Margo Jefferson's New Memoir Experiments With the Form in Startling Ways". The New York Times. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  6. ↑ "2023 Winners". Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence. Reference & User Services Association (RUSA). October 3, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  7. ↑ Varno, David (March 24, 2023). "Announcing the 2022 NBCC Award Winners". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved April 1, 2023.