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Brontez Purnell

Triana, Alabama native Brontez Purnell

Aired 06/28/2019

Monograph

Brontez Purnell

Clip: Season 1 | 6m 46sVideo has Closed Captions

Triana, Alabama native Brontez Purnell

Award winning author, choreographer, musician, and performance artist, Brontez channels his smalltown Alabama upbringing throughout all of his work. In 2018 he won the Whiting Award in fiction for Since I Laid My Burden Down, a uniquely Southern coming of age novel written with candor, affection, and humor.

Aired 06/28/2019

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