Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard

TO committed herself to producing a huge novel during her tenure of a Ford Foundation grant (for two years from 1959). The burden of this commitment brought physical and mental collapse in early 1961. The...

She finished work on this volume (titled from a plant which her mother rescued from a deserted house, kept for years, and gave away in cuttings) during the first year of her Radcliffe Institute fellowship...

On October 24 1934 she was greeted with effusive press coverage in New York. At Columbia University she had been expected to give four lectures to audiences of approximately two hundred each. However...

After this, following the example of Anne Sexton , she secured a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute , and moved for a year to Boston with her husband and youngest daughter. This fellowship was extended...

PLT followed her writer-in-residence stint at Radcliffe College with another year in the same position at Smith College , in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Walker closed her stay at the Radcliffe Institute with homage to Zora Neale Hurston , whose writings and life-story she had only recently discovered. She borrowed a curse-prayer from Hurston's Mules and Men, and...

Olsen gave this book a double dedication. The first read: For our silenced people, century after century their beings consumed in the hard, everyday essential work of maintaining human life. Their art, which still they...

CPG 's correspondence with Vernon Lee (on whom she was an important influence) survives among Lee's papers at Somerville College , Oxford. Scharnhorst writes that her papers once in her daughter's hands were...

TO 's dazzling performance as a Communist speaker was the first phase of a career that led towards her later years as a star literary lecturer. As a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute she spoke...

When in September 1970 Walker applied for a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute at Cambridge to work on this novel, she was planning that her protagonist, a young, Southern woman studying at a genteel black...