Louis Edwards is an American novelist.

Life

Edwards was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Louisiana State University (LSU) in 1984 with a degree in Journalism. He also attended

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(City University of New York) for his junior year. While in graduate school studying English literature at LSU, he began writing his first novel, ''Ten Seconds'', which would eventually be published by

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in 1991. In 1993 and 1994, respectively, he received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

and a

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard E ...

for his fiction.Whiting Foundation
/ref> In August 2021, Amistad/HarperCollins will publish his fourth novel
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He lives in New Orleans.

Career

In addition to being an author, Edwards has had a successful, decades-long career in the music and entertainment industry. Since the mid-1980s he has worked for Festival Productions, Inc. in New Orleans (1986–present). The company produces the annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival among other events. He has worked on a wide variety of music festivals, such as the JVC Jazz Festival-New York (1987–1994), the Essence Festival (1995–2007), as well as events in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Houston, and many other cities. He is currently the Chief Creative Officer and the Chief Marketing Officer at Festival Productions, overseeing advertising and marketing, public relations, Internet and social media, corporate sponsorships, and merchandise.

Works

* ''Ten Seconds'' (

, 1991), * ''N: A Romantic Mystery'' (Dutton, 1997), * ''Oscar Wilde Discovers America'' (

Scribner Scribner may refer to: Media * Charles Scribner's Sons, also known as Scribner or Scribner's, New York City publisher * ''Scribner's Magazine'', pictorial published from 1887–1939 by Charles Scribner's Sons, then merged with the ''Commentator ...

, 2003), *
Ramadan Ramsey
' (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2021)

References

External links

Profile at The Whiting FoundationHis personal website
20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Writers from Lake Charles, Louisiana American male novelists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Louisiana {{US-novelist-stub