Bill Text: TX HR682 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Congratulating Kiese Laymon of Rice University on receiving a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-29 - Referred to Resolutions Calendars [HR682 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HR682-Introduced.html
  88R12963 BPG-D
 
  By: A. Johnson of Harris H.R. No. 682
 
 
 
R E S O L U T I O N
         WHEREAS, Rice University professor Kiese Laymon has been
  named the recipient of a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship; and
         WHEREAS, Widely known as "genius grants," the MacArthur
  Fellowships acknowledge exceptional originality in creative
  endeavors; each award carries an $800,000 stipend to be used
  however the recipient wishes; the MacArthur Foundation lauded
  Mr. Laymon's profound honesty in bearing witness to the myriad
  forms of violence that mark the Black experience; and
         WHEREAS, Kiese Laymon is the acclaimed author of the 2018
  bestseller Heavy: An American Memoir, as well as the novel Long
  Division and the essay collection How to Slowly Kill Yourself and
  Others in America; his writing has also appeared in the New York
  Times, the Washington Post, and Vanity Fair, among other
  publications; and
         WHEREAS, In January 2022, Mr. Laymon joined the faculty at
  Rice as the Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and
  English; he previously taught at Vassar College and the University
  of Mississippi; a Mississippi native, he founded the Catherine
  Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative at Jackson State
  University to inspire youth and their parents to read, write, and
  share their life stories; and
         WHEREAS, Mr. Laymon holds a bachelor's degree from Oberlin
  College and a master of fine arts degree from Indiana University,
  and he completed a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University; over
  the years, his work has garnered numerous accolades; Heavy won the
  2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and it was
  named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by the New York
  Times and one of the 25 Defining Works of the Black Renaissance by
  Time magazine; in addition, the audiobook, read by the author, was
  named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year; Long Division
  received an NAACP Image Award; and
         WHEREAS, Through his literary works and his commitment to
  creative writing education, Kiese Laymon has enriched the lives of
  innumerable people, causing them to reflect more deeply on the
  power of personal expression, and he is truly deserving of this
  prestigious honor; now, therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas
  Legislature hereby congratulate Kiese Laymon on receiving a 2022
  MacArthur Fellowship and extend to him sincere best wishes for
  continued success; and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
  prepared for Mr. Laymon as an expression of high regard by the Texas
  House of Representatives.
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