{"id":640,"date":"2023-08-01T22:10:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T03:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=640"},"modified":"2023-10-07T13:10:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T18:10:55","slug":"maurice-carlos-ruffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2023\/maurice-carlos-ruffin\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Carlos Ruffin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>author of <em>The Ones Who Don\u2019t Say They Love You<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 20, 9:40am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maurice Carlos Ruffin<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is the author of the story collection\u00a0<em>The Ones Who Don\u2019t Say They Love You\u00a0<\/em>and the novel\u00a0<em>We Cast A Shadow.\u00a0<\/em>A long-time New Orleans resident, Ruffin is the reicipient of the 2023 Louisiana Author Award and was the 2022 Grand Marshal of the Mardi Gras Krewe of House Floats. His next novel,\u00a0<em>The American Daughters,\u00a0<\/em>is due to be released next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/mruffin_lg.png\" alt=\"Maurice Carlos Ruffin\" class=\"wp-image-615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/mruffin_lg.png 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/mruffin_lg-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/theones.jpg\" alt=\"The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You cover\" class=\"wp-image-624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/theones.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2023\/08\/theones-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of The Ones Who Don\u2019t Say They Love You<br \/>\nOctober 20, 9:40am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-30"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}