CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Randall Kenan, an author whose stories explored the experience of being Black and gay in the American South, has died.
He was 57.The University of North Carolina, where Kenan taught as an English professor, confirmed his death on Saturday. A cause was not immediately available,Daniel Wallace, his friend and colleague at the university, said Kenan was found dead Friday at his home in Hillsborough, near Chapel Hill."He was just an immense talent.
His best years were ahead of him," Wallace said, noting that his most recent book, If I Had Two Wings, was published just this month. “And he was a gentleman of the old school” who never failed to bring flowers or chocolate to Wallace's wife when he would visit the couple.Kenan.