Harrison, Niall. “Throwing Voices And Observing Transformations: An Interview With Helen Oyeyemi”. Strange Horizons, 2013.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Standard Name: Brooks, Gwendolyn
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Helen Oyeyemi | This is HO
's haunted house novel; she reports having been inspired by Shirley Jackson
's The Haunting of Hill House. |
Literary responses | Grace Nichols | GN
's publishers quote glowing opinions about her work. Gwendolyn Brooks
has praised her rich music, an easy lyricism . . . also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean,Jeanette Winterson |
Occupation | Alice Walker | She supplemented her Radcliffe Institute
writing fellowship (worth $5,000, awarded for a year and extended for a second year) by teaching at Wellesley College
. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004. 218, 222, 225 |
Reception | Alice Walker | Critic Barbara Smith
, who read the book in galley proof, foresaw that it would rock the publishing world. Incest? Lesbianism? Letters to God? In black English? It was from another planet. Without question, it... |
Timeline
1950: Gwendolyn Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize (the...
Writing climate item
1950
Gwendolyn Brooks
won the Pulitzer Prize (the first African American to do so) for her poetry volume Annie Allen. Annie lives, like the poet, on Chicago's South Side (Bronzeville).
Watkins, Mel. “Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, Passionate Poet, Dies”. New York Times, 5 Dec. 2000.
September 1957: Desegregation of education in the American...
National or international item
September 1957
Desegregation of education in the American South met with resistance: the Governor of Arkansas closed the Little Rock public schools and opened them as private, segregated ones in defiance of Federal policy.
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
256
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978. II: 241
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
189-91
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