Paul Beatty is the author of four novels, Slumberland, Tuff, The White Boy Shuffle, and The Sellout, which won both the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the 2016 Man Booker Prize. It was named one of the best books of 2015 by the Times and the Wall Street Journal. He has also authored two books of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce. He is the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor.