Kim McLarin (born 1964) is an American novelist, best known for Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X, co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz, and Jump at the Sun.- Her works include contemporary novels, short stories and non-fiction.
Career McLarin has a bachelor's degree from Duke University.
She is a former staff writer for The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Greensboro News & Record and Associated Press. She is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston."Kimberly McLarin", Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty, Emerson College.- Kim McLarin, "Race Wasn’t an Issue to Him, Which Was an Issue to Me", New York Times, September 3, 2006.- Kim McLarin, Biog note, Washington Post, April 24, 2010.
McLarin is a regular panelist on Basic Black, Boston's longest-running weekly television program devoted exclusively to African-American themes, shown on WGBH.Basic Black , WGBH.
McLarin has two children and lives in Boston.
Bibliography Contemporary Meeting of the Waters (Harper Perennial, 2001) Jump at the Sun (William Morrow, 2006)
Short stories in Black Silk (A Collection Of African American Erotica) (2002)
Non-fiction Taming It Down (Warner Books, 1998) Growing up X, co-authored with Ilyasah Shabazz (Thorndike Press, 2002) This Child Will Be Great, co-authored with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Harper/HarperCollins, 2009) Divorce Dog: Men, Motherhood, and Midlife (C&r Press, 2012) Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life (Ig Publishing, 2019) James Baldwin's Another Country (Ig Publishing, 2021)
Awards Won 2007 Fiction Honor Book, of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (for Jump at the Sun)
Nominated 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction (for Jump at the Sun)
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