Romer Shaw
Born in New Orleans, Romer Shaw is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated historical fiction writer. Having lived, worked, and traveled extensively throughout Latin America, his work primarily focuses on the relationship between the United States and Latin America and the effect American Imperialism has had on those countries. He also loves American-Southern history. His favorite backdrop for any novel is the Mississippi Delta, the area between Memphis and New Orleans.
Romer's next novel, An Ocean Black, will be published in the spring of 2025.
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Romer can be contacted directly at: romershaw@gmail.com
Works
An Ocean Black
Set between 1964 and 2008. We pick back up with Marcus Little where we left him in Children of Wrath. Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr., Marcus fights to make a difference in Adamsville, Georgia, a historically black community in southwest Atlanta. Following a great tragedy, this book follows the lives of Marcus' two young sons, Luther and Martin Little, as they traverse the unsteady ground that becomes the late-1980s crack cocaine epidemic.
Expected publication date: May 1, 2025
Ten Years of Spring
Considered for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Set between 1951 and 1954 on a banana plantation in Tiquisate, Guatemala, meet Connor Caine--disavowed New Orleans blue-blood turned renegade photojournalist--as he navigates Cold War politics, the 'Red Scare', and a CIA-led coup d'etat ending the Guatemalan 'Ten Years of Spring' in 1954.
Along the way young Connor discovers himself and love in the arms of the dynamically capable Honduran journalist, Abigail Catalina Hernandez Cortez.
Can their love survive a father's relentless pursuit of power and control or the bombings and midnight attacks of the Yanquis?