Randall Kenan

Randall Kenan was a chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. He was the author of the collections of short stories If I Had Two Wings (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Aspen Prize, and longlisted for the National Book Award) and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), the novel A Visitation of Spirits, and a number of nonfiction works. Kenan was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize. Kenan died in August 2020 at the age of fifty-seven.