Tommy Orange
Tommy Orange | |
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Orange in 2018 in Texas | |
| Born | January 19, 1982 Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Citizenship | Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, United States |
| Education | Institute of American Indian Arts (BS, MFA) |
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Tommy Orange (born January 19, 1982) is an American novelist and writer from Oakland, California. His first book, There There (2018), was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and received the 2019 American Book Award.
Orange is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He earned a master's degree in fine arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts. He was born and raised in the Dimond District of Oakland, California, and resides there.