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# Darryl Pinckney

## Identity

Darryl Pinckney

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/darryl-pinckney
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** darryl-pinckney
- **TMDB ID:** 3766923
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3766923

Actor. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

## Details

- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3766923

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*All the Beauty and the Bloodshed*](https://film.one/film/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed.md) (86)

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## Biography

Darryl Pinckney is an American novelist, playwright and essayist. Born in 1953 in Indianapolis, Indiana, he was educated at Columbia University. His first novel, *High Cotton* (1992), is a semi-autobiographical account of growing up in a middle-class African-American family. His second novel, *Black Deutschland* (2016), is set in late-1980s Berlin.

Pinckney has written several works of nonfiction, including *Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature* (2002) and *Busted in New York and Other Essays* (2019). He has collaborated on theatrical texts with director Robert Wilson, including *The Forest* (1988) and *Orlando* (1989). He appears as himself in the 2022 documentary *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed*.

His awards include a Whiting Award (1986) and the Vursell Award for Distinguished Prose from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994). He is a long-time contributor to *The New York Review of Books*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, rottentomatoes.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *All the Beauty and the Bloodshed* (2022), Fi1m 86, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed.md)

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