Gayl Jones

TM dedicated this book (which is based on the actual case of Margaret Garner) to the memory of the sixty million people who died on the slave-trade route (the middle passage) from Africa. Some...

Meanwhile, after her divorce, TM came north and became an associate editor with a subsidiary of Random House publishers, then transferred to the parent company. With two small children and little social life, she held...

Along with Walker, ZNH has influenced many other writers, African-American and otherwise: these include Toni Cade Bambara , Gayl Jones , Toni Morrison , and Mary Helen Washington .