This year’s group of MacArthur Fellows includes:

• Kiese Laymon, the Black Southern author of “Heavy: an American Memoir,” which has been acclaimed by critics, named one of the best personal histories of the last half century and banned by several school boards.
• Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of “Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration.”
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation who wrote the stealth bestseller “Braiding Sweetgrass.”
   

The announcement and more information here, on NPR.

And all of the information at the MacArthur Foundation website, here.