Paule Marshall

Paule Marshall was born on 9 April 1929 in Brooklyn to parents from Barbados. After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1953, she worked for the African American magazine Our World before devoting herself to writing. She later taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, then at New York University, and received a Guggenheim fellowship, then in 1992 a MacArthur fellowship. She died on 12 August 2019 in Richmond, Virginia.

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• NovelBrown Girl, BrownstonesPaule Marshall · 1959Literature