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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) [ 2 ] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Over the span of her career, Walker has published ...
Kate Chopin (/ ˈʃoʊpæn /, [1][2] also US: / ʃoʊˈpæn, ˈʃoʊpən /; [3] born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1850 [4] – August 22, 1904) [5] was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. She is considered by scholars [6] to have been a forerunner of American 20th-century feminist authors of Southern or ...
Robert B. Nemiroff. . . (m. 1953; div. 1962) . Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. [1] She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago ...
List of women sportswriters. Lists of women writers by nationality. Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen. Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. Sophie (digital lib) Women in science fiction. Women Writers Project. Women's writing in English.
Black feminism. Relatives. Beverly Smith (sister) Barbara Smith (born November 16, 1946) [1][a] is an American lesbian feminist and socialist who has played a significant role in Black feminism in the United States. [2] Since the early 1970s, she has been active as a scholar, activist, critic, lecturer, author, and publisher of Black feminist ...
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [1]: 17 [2]: 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [3] The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching ...
www.juliaalvarez.com. Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself ...
Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history. [1] Her black fictional characters were working professionals which was an ...