Books By Damon Young - Author

Pittsburgh writer DAMON YOUNG's debut memoir, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Ecco), won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Damon is also a founder of the culture blog VerySmartBrothas, and was a contributing columnist for The Washington Post Magazine, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, a columnist for GQ, and was the creator and host of the Crooked Media podcast "Stuck With Damon Young." Currently, he is the inaugural writer-in-residence at the University of Pittsburgh's David C. Frederick Honors College.