Jeffrey Wright’s exquisitely calibrated performance as the irascible novelist Thelonious Ellison, known as Monk, in “American Fiction” recently earned him his first Oscar nomination.

‘American Fiction’ ranks Top 2 on Prime Video ... country where Prime Video is available. The plot follows Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a novelist who writes academically praised novels ...

Thelonious Monk, one of the best bebop jazz musicians of all time; a prodigious union of wills that overcame the most extreme prejudices of the very conservative US society.