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In 1986, Taylor received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. [10] In 1987, she received the Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications. [11] [12] The Magazine Publishers of America gave Taylor its Henry Johnson Fisher Award, considered one of the industry's highest honors, in 1998. She was the first African ...
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
The book is a first-person narrative in which Mildred Lathbury records the humdrum details of her everyday life in post-war London near the start of the 1950s. Perpetually self-deprecating, but with the sharpest wit, Mildred is a clergyman's daughter who is now just over thirty and lives in "a shabby part…very much the 'wrong' side of Victoria Station".
Cork O’Connor, whose wife is a full-blooded Ojibwe and who is half Native American himself, retired from his job as Aurora, Minnesota, police chief a while back. For starters, the daughter of an ...
Lisa Hilton FRHistS (born 1974) [1] is a British writer of history books, historical fiction, articles for magazines and newspapers including Vogue and The Sunday Telegraph, librettist, and as L.S. Hilton, psychological thrillers Maestra (2016), Domina (2017) and Ultima (2018). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2024. [2]
The Antagonists: A Novel of Masada by Ernest K. Gann (1st century) The Gospel According to Lazarus by Richard Zimler (1st century) Holy Warrior by Angus Donald, second novel in the Outlaw Chronicles (12th century) Jerusalem by Cecelia Holland (12th century) Exodus by Leon Uris (SS Exodus and the founding of Israel) The Haj by Leon Uris (1920s ...
Hine wrote three books about African-American women's history. [11] Her 1989 book Black Women in Whites: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890–1950 was named Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. [12] She edited a two-volume encyclopedia, Black Women in America, first published ...
Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated black art, literature, and music.