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V.R.McCoy V.R. McCoy is an American writer, who specializes in supernatural thrillers and crime thrillers. McCoy who is based in Atlanta, Ga., has written three titles: "Shaman-The Awakening;" "The Merchant," and "Shaman-The Dawn's People." "Shaman-The Awakening," published in 2014, was a best-seller on Amazon.com. "The Merchant," published in 2016, was also an Amazon bestseller. "Shaman-The Dawn's People," was published by VanDaBry in 2018. McCoy was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Margaret McCoy and Vertis McCoy. His education was centered in Washington and he attended Holy Name Elementary School, Archbishop Carroll High School and Howard University. Archbishop Carroll is the high school of James Patterson's well-known character, Alex Cross. Patterson is one of McCoy's inspirations, as well as Walter Mosley, Stephen King, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin and Tom Clancy. McCoy follows the strong tradition of stellar writers who have studied and taught at Howard. This list includes novelist Zora Neal Hurston, poet May Miller, novelist Toni Morrison, writer Amiri Baraka, poet Sterling Brown, playwright and actor Ossie Davis and novelist Valerie Wilson Wesley. His goal is to place African American characters in central roles in his novels. His characters are complex, and not only follow their own instincts, but blend cultural identity, history, fiction, Native American customs and Afro-centrism in their stories. McCoy has three children: Vertis McCoy, Aja McCoy and Aspen McCoy. His professional associations include the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and the Prince Hall Freemasons.

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