In 2012, Booklist honored him with a Voice of Choice award. Graham has earned a place on AudioFile magazine's list of Golden Voice Narrators, as well as Audible's Narrator Hall of Fame. Throughout his career as an audiobook narrator, Graham has continued to act both on- and off-screen, including television shows such as The Wire, The Good Wife, and Madam Secretary. Since 2000, Graham has given voice to many Black characters and narrated classic works by African American authors, including Langston Hughes's The Weary Blues, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail, James Baldwin's Going to Meet the Man, and Chester Himes's The Big Gold Dream. His first audiobook narration was published in 2000. A few years later, Graham was performing a Tennessee Williams play at the Royal National Theatre when an acquaintance encouraged him to consider audiobooks. Months later, Graham listened to the recording and found it 'compelling ' he also remembered enjoying the process of recording the story.

First, a roommate of his requested that he record James Joyce’s story ' The Dead' for a long road trip. Graham highlights two key moments in his life as being influential to his career as an audiobook narrator. Throughout the 1990s, he appeared in other shows, such as Law & Order, and performed on- and off-Broadway. His on-screen acting career began in 1992 when he played a role in Malcolm X. Graham grew up in Cincinnati and lives in New York City. His ability to inhabit characters seems limitless his myriad character accents are always flawless.' Biography Further, he has won 11 Audie Awards, 71 Earphone Awards, 3 Listen-Up Awards, and 1 Odyssey Award.īook Riot called Graham 'the best of the best' in audiobook narration, saying, 'His voice is rich and emotive, making even the driest bits of a long biography or history come alive. He has earned a place on AudioFile magazine's list of Golden Voice Narrators, as well as Audible's Narrator Hall of Fame. As of April 2024, he has narrated at least 280 audiobooks. As an actor, he has worked both on and off-Broadway, as well as in TV series and film. And there are others, too: the stories we tell ourselves to protect our minds from what cannot otherwise be borne, the stories we need to make us happy.Dion Graham is an American actor and narrator. The novel is full of stories - Icelandic ones told to fend off a slave-owner's advances, Arabian ones to help an old man die. The Sealwoman's Gift is about the eternal power of story telling to help us survive.

Steeped in the sagas and folk tales of her northern homeland, she finds herself experiencing not just the separations and agonies of captivity, but the reassessments that come in any age when intelligent eyes are opened to other lives, other cultures and other kinds of loving. Enslaved in an alien Arab culture Ásta meets the loss of both her freedom and her children with the one thing she has brought from home: the stories in her head. In this brilliant reimagining, Sally Magnusson gives a voice to Ásta, the pastor's wife. It was a time when women everywhere were largely silent. Although the raid itself is well documented, little is known about what happened to the women and children afterwards. Among the captives sold into slavery in Algiers were the island pastor, his wife and their three children. In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including 250 from a tiny island off the mainland.

Katherine manners audio book narrator