--- title: Bryan Washington | TIME description: Washington, an award-winning novelist, is the author of Family Meal, Lot: Stories, and Memorial canonical: https://time.com/author/bryan-washington/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/bryan-washington/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bryan Washington ## Bryan Washington Washington, an award-winning novelist, is the author of [Family Meal](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690264/family-meal-by-bryan-washington/), [Lot: Stories](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563343/lot-by-bryan-washington/9780525533689/), and [Memorial](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621176/memorial-by-bryan-washington/9780593087282/) ## Bryan Washington *  Sep 30, 2023 ### [What Beyoncé Gave Us](https://time.com/6318735/beyonce-tour-queer-community-houston/) 'Calling her Houston performances perfect would, in some ways, belie the many things they achieved,'... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 16, 2021 ### ["When the Rain Stops": a Short Story by Bryan Washington](https://time.com/5953389/bryan-washington-when-the-rain-stops/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/bryan-washington/","name":"Bryan Washington"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/bryan-washington/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/bryan-washington/"},"name":"Bryan Washington","jobTitle":null,"description":"Washington, an award-winning novelist, is the author of Family Meal, Lot: Stories, and Memorial","url":"https://time.com/author/bryan-washington/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```