Paule Marshall
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Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Brooklyn College (1953) and Hunter College (1955). Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose. She was chosen by Langston Hughes to accompany him on a world tour in which they both read their work, which was a boon for her career.
Marshall has taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of California, Berkeley, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Yale University before holding the Helen Gould Sheppard Chair of Literature and Culture at New York University. In 1993 she received an honorary L.H.D. from Bates College.
She is a MacArthur Fellow and is a past winner of the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. She was designated as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library in 1994.
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[edit] Works
- Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959)
- Soul Clap Hands and Sing (1961)
- The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (1969)
- Rena and Other Stories (1983)
- Praisesong for the Widow (1983)
- Daughters (1991)
- The Fisher King: A Novel (2001)
[edit] Quote
"I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital form. Not only does it allow for the kind of full-blown, richly detailed writing that I love… but it permits me to operate on many levels and to explore both the inner state of my characters as well as the worlds beyond them."
[edit] References
- http://cwp.fas.nyu.edu/page/faculty
- http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Marshall.html
- http://www.nndb.com/people/404/000048260/
