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Also Known As Kevin Lowell Young
Born November 8, 1970 (age 54) • Lincoln • Nebraska
Notable Works “Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels” • “Brown” • “Dear Darkness” • “For the Confederate Dead” • “Jelly Roll: a blues” • “Most Way Home” • “To Repel Ghosts (the double album)”
Movement / Style “Book of Hours”

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