page_title: M. K. Asante
section_title: Books
hierarchical_section_title: M. K. Asante / Career / Books
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of Buck: A Memoir by MK Asante
context_page_description: M. K. Asante is an American author, filmmaker, recording artist, and professor. He is best known for his best-selling memoir Buck.
context_section_description: Asante is the author of four books, most notably Buck, a memoir about his troubled youth in Philadelphia. Buck was selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and made the Washington Post bestseller list in 2014 and 2015. Poet Maya Angelou, who mentored Asante, described Buck as "a story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style."
caption: Cover of Buck: A Memoir (Random House) by MK Asante
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