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Regina Porter
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Regina Porter

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Regina Porter is an award-winning playwright and author of The Travelers, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the Orwell Political Fiction Prize. A graduate of the MFA fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her writing has been published in the Harvard Review, Tin House, and the Oxford Review.

Books by Regina Porter

The Rich People Have Gone Away

Ordinary New Yorkers are brought together in a story of betrayal, race, what connects us to each other – and what sets us apart

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The Travelers

An astonishing debut novel that bears witness to the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War and the first term of Obama's presidency, The Travelers is both an intimate family portrait and a searing examination of America today.

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