Ramon Lyles
Author of nonfiction and fiction. Careful reader. Onlooker who says what he sees.
Ramon Lyles writes the kind of nonfiction that sits with a subject long enough to see it clearly. His books do not shout, they do not perform, and they refuse the easy answers that fit on a bumper sticker. They read the source, watch the movement, and describe the distance between the two.
His debut, The Weight He Carries: The Plight of the Black Man in America, is a patient reckoning with a burden that is often carried in silence. His follow-up project, Two Christianities, is a chapter by chapter contrast between what the Bible says and what Conservative American Christianity has come to look like.
He also writes fiction. Under the Purple Umbrella, his first novel, is a love story set in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It follows two lives drawn together by chance, kept close by longing, and tested by the choices only travelers understand. It is not memoir, not commentary, and not a lesson. It is a story, told as honestly as fiction can be told.
Ramon writes for the reader who is tired of noise and still wants to be told the truth. He believes a book should ask more of you than an opinion, and give back more than a slogan.
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