A prolific and versatile writer, Frank B. Wilderson, III has received numerous writing awards, including The Eisner Prize for Creative Achievement of the Highest Order, The Crothers Short Story Award, The Judith Stronach Award for Poetry, The Jerome Foundation Artists and Writers Award, The Loft-McKnight Award for Best Prose in the State of Minnesota, and The Maya Angelou Award for Best Fiction Portraying the Black Experience in America. His fiction and creative prose, as well as his critical and scholarly work, have been published internationally.

His books include Incognegro: a Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (South End Press 2008) and Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press, forthcoming). Novelist Ishmael Reed called Incognegro “an important contribution to the African and African American canons and a rare American work that bridges two cultures [Black American and Black South African].”