Reginald McKnight

Reginald McKnight is the Hamilton Holmes Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He has won the O. Henry Award, the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and the Whiting Award for Fiction, among other awards and prizes. McKnight is the author of Moustapha’s Eclipse (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988), I Get on the Bus (Little, Brown and Company, 1990), The Kind of Light that Shines on Texas (Little, Brown and Company, 1992), White Boys: Stories (Henry Holt and Company, 1999), and He Sleeps (Picador, 2001). (Updated 1/2026)