Novelist David Wright Falade learned about the life of ... he became a sergeant of an all-Black brigade when the Civil War broke out. Black Cloud Rising is a fictionalized version of these events ...

Scott Simon talks to novelist David Wright Falade about his new book, "Black Cloud Rising," about the leader of an all-Black brigade in the Civil War. "Black Cloud Rising" has been taking shape ...

Atlantic Monthly Press. $27. There’s nothing pulpy about David Wright Faladé’s “Black Cloud Rising.” It’s a Civil War novel based on the actual experiences of the African Brigade ...

Your story “The Sand Banks, 1861” is set on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, in the early months of the Civil War. When did ... football in Paris, as David Wright. Here, you’re publishing ...

David Wright Faladé is the author of a new historical novel, “Black Cloud Rising,” that follows an all-Black brigade in the Civil War.