Naylor, Gloria (1950—)
Gloria Naylor, one of the most influential African American women writers of the late twentieth century, came to prominence in 1982 when she published The Women of Brewst...
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The author Gloria Naylor (born 1950) wrote novels that emphasized the strengths of women, especially African American women, and the effects on the lives of people of racism, sexism, and the drive for...
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"I . . . wanted to be a writer from the time I was twelve or thirteen years old. But whether that was going to be a probable goal for me didn't come up as an issue for me until my college years," nove...
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The emergence of Gloria Naylor on the American literary scene was sudden--The Women of Brewster Place (1982) was her first book--and intense, as Naylor added her voice to those of the few black women ...
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As author of The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor has assured her place in a body of literature which she has revered since childhood, a reverence owed directly to her mother. "My parents were f...
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