Malcolm Hansen, THEY COME IN ALL COLORS

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🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Malcolm Hansen is the winner of the BCALA (Black Caucus American Library Association) Literary Award for a first novelist and was nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award. His debut novel They Come In All Colors is a mea culpa style story of a 15-year-old boy who poisons his friend and then explains the circumstances leading up to his choices. Malcom and I spoke about his using writing as a form of therapy, how growing up overseas and being raised by an interracial activist couple shaped his view of the world including being adopted. We even spoke delicately about his relationship with his birth mother. I really enjoyed talking to Malcom about the idea that fiction puts the reader in another person's shoes, plus I won’t ever forget Malcolm’s story of a typewriter, a motorcycle and his dusty road to Ecuador. It's so inspiring! And just a heads up, this episode does include some adult language. Be inspired by Malcolm Hansen like I was!

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1:13.1	I'm here with Malcolm Hansen, who's the debut author of They Come in All Colors, a novel.
1:18.4	He is the winner of the B, CLA, Black Caucus American Library Association Literary Award
1:25.0	for a first novelist and was nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award.
1:30.6	Malcolm was born at the Florence Crittenden home for unwed mothers in Chattanooga, Tennessee,
1:35.4	and adopted by two civil rights activists. He grew up in Morocco, Spain, Germany, and the U.S.
1:41.1	He attended Stanford after only two years of high school, after which he worked
1:44.6	for several years in the software industry before traveling throughout Central and South America
1:48.9	and Europe for a decade. He then returned to the U.S. to complete an MFA and fiction from Columbia.
1:54.6	He currently lives in New York City with his wife and two sons. So welcome, Malcolm. Thanks for
1:58.6	coming on Mom's and have time to read books. Thanks for having me. Can you please tell listeners what they come in all colors is about?
2:05.6	Absolutely. Well, first, is it okay if I use swear words? All right.
2:09.6	Okay. Thanks for the heads up. Okay. Great. Get the kids out of the car. Yeah, this is for
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