Leon Nixon

02/26/2026

Ben Crump wrote a legal thriller.

Narrated by yours truly.

08/31/2025

Did you know there was almost an entirely black state? A state in the U.S. entirely for black people. Edward McCabe, "the man who would be the moses," tried his best to make it happen.

This book tells the story, and it's both fascinating, and heartbreaking.

At least it was for me.

So close.

Grateful for and his phenomenal work on this project.

Narrated by yours truly.

03/07/2025

We won an Audie for this very important work!

An Audie Award is the audiobook equivalent of a Grammy Award, and I'm proud and grateful to have contributed to this award-winning project.

01/23/2025

It's quite an honor to narrate part of this book.

I was fortunate to be able to speak the words of 53 men -- enlisted, officers, and others -- from their written and transcribed accounts of their experiences on D-Day.

It's wonderful to be among the group of talented narrators on this project.

It's also quite humbling to embody the words of those who personally experienced D-Day.

Congratulations to all the nominees.

11/14/2024

I'm delighted to be on two projects selected as Audible's Best of the Year (2024).

These books are among, "... an obsessively curated selection of editor and listener favorites... each one boasting a standout, not-to-be-missed performance..."

10/18/2024

I narrate multiple genres.

This latest review is Mystery & Suspense.

08/18/2023

I had the honor of narrating Infants of the Spring.

Pretty cool to read about Mr. Thurman.

I hope you get a chance to listen.

This date marks the birth of Wallace Henry Thurman in 1902. He was an African American editor, critic, novelist, and playwright associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.

Born in Salt Lake City, Thurman studied at the University of Utah and the University of Southern California, although he did not receive a degree. He moved to Harlem in 1925, and by the time he became managing editor of the black periodical Messenger in 1926, he had immersed himself in the Harlem literary scene and encouraged such writers as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston to contribute to his publication. That summer, Hughes asked Thurman to edit Fire!!, a literary magazine conceived as a forum for young black writers and artists.

Despite outstanding contributors, who included Hughes, Hurston, and Gwendolyn Bennett, the publication folded after one issue. Two years later Thurman published Harlem, again with work by the younger writers of the Harlem Renaissance, but it too survived only one issue. In 1929 Thurman's play Harlem, written with William Rapp, opened to mixed reviews, although its b***y treatment of Harlem life made it a popular success. His first novel, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, also appeared that year. Like his unfinished play Black Cinderella, it dealt with color prejudice within the black community.

Thurman is perhaps best known for his novel Infants of the Spring (1932), a satire of what he believed were the overrated creative figures of the Harlem scene. Some reviewers welcomed Thurman's bold insight, while others vilified him as a racial traitor. Thurman never again wrote on African-American subjects. He died in 1934 in New York City.

03/29/2023

We won an Audie Award!

Yaaaaay!

03/15/2023

Master Slave Husband Wife received an Earphones Award!

I'm grateful for the team of Simon & Schuster Audio for casting me, Ilyon Woo, Author for her amazing research and writing, and co-narrator Janina Edwards for being awesome.

This reads like fiction, and it's 100% true.

I hope you listen.

AudioFile Audiobook Review: Talented narrators Janina Edwards and Leon Nixon expertly deliver this riveting, well-researched historical account. Ellen and William Craft were an e

03/06/2023

Stuntboy, In the Meantime has been nominated for an Audie Award.

The Audie Awards is the premier awards program recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.

To be part of the cast of this book is an honor for which I am really grateful.

The awards will be announced 28 March 2023.