Mateo Askaripour

Honoree, 2023 5 Under 35

Mateo Askaripour’s work aims to empower people of color to seize opportunities for advancement, no matter the obstacle. He was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly’s “10 rising stars to make waves in 2021” and was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence. Learn more >

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Black Buck

Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour book jacket
ISBN 9780358627982
Mariner Books / HarperCollins Publishers

There’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. More about this book >

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Mateo Askaripour

Mateo Askaripour’s work aims to empower people of color to seize opportunities for advancement, no matter the obstacle. He was chosen as one of Entertainment Weekly’s “10 rising stars to make waves in 2021” and was a 2018 Rhode Island Writers Colony writer-in-residence. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. His debut novel Black Buck was an instant New York Times bestseller and a Read With Jenna Today Show book club pick. He lives in Brooklyn.

(Photo credit: Andrews “Fifthgod” Askaripour)

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