The Book of Mycah, a novella by Dr. Joshua Bennet (RCDS Class of 2006), will be made into a film adaptation as part of a deal between Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Productions and Warner Bros. Television Group.
Dr. Bennett is an award-winning author and professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College. In addition to The Book of Mycah, Dr. Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School, Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, Owed, and The Study of Human Life. He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award (Poetry and Nonfiction) in 2021 and has received a number of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MIT, the Ford Foundation, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.
Congratulations, Dr. Bennett!