| Birth Place: | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
| Alma Mater: | Dartmouth College |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Notable Works: | A Kind of Freedom; The Revisioners |
| Awards: | NAACP Image Award |
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton is an American novelist.[1]
Sexton was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at the University of California at Berkeley.
She was a recipient of the Lombard Fellowship and spent a year in the Dominican Republic working for a civil rights organization and writing.
Her debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, made the New York Times "100 Notable Books" list,[2] and the Editor's Choice list[3] in 2017. Her second novel, The Revisioners, was named one of the most anticipated books of fall 2019 by Parade magazine.[4]
Sexton won the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association,[5] and the Crook's Corner Book Prize for A Kind of Freedom.[6] She was also nominated for a 2017 National Book Award by the National Book Foundation.[7]
At the 2020 NAACP Image Awards she was the winner in the Fiction category for her 2019 novel The Revisioners.[8]