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Cary, Lorene

LC control no.n 90638327
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LC classificationPS3553.A78944
Personal name headingCary, Lorene
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1956-11-29
Place of birthPhiladelphia (Pa.)
AffiliationSt. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.) Church of the Advocate (Philadelphia, Pa.) University of Pennsylvania University of Sussex TV Guide Magazine Group, Inc. Colby College
Art Sanctuary at the Church of the Advocate (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Profession or occupationEssayists Novelists Journalists Community activists Educators
Found inHer Black ice, 1991: CIP t.p. (Lorene Cary)
African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Cary, Lorene; autobiographer, memoirist, essayist, fiction writer, educator, community activist; born November 29, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; graduated from St. Paul's Preparatory School, New Hampshire (1974); BA and MA degrees, University of Pennsylvania (1978); MA in Victorian Literature, Sussex University, England. She was a writer for Time magazine, associate editor for TV Guide and a contributing editor for Newsweek. She also worked as a freelance writer, her articles appearing in Essence, Mirabella, Newsweek, the New York Times, Obsidian, Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine. In 1998 she established Art Sanctuary at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia with the goal of bringing black artists and thinkers to the black community)
African American National Biography, accessed January 15, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cary, Lorene; essayist, fiction writer, educator, community activist; born 29 November 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; BA and MA degrees from University of Pennsylvania (1978); MA in Victorian literature from Sussex University, England; associate editor for TV Guide (1980); published her book Black Ice (1991); American Library Association named Black Ice one of its Notable Books (1992); honorary doctor of letters degree from Colby College, Maine (1992). She established Art Sanctuary at the Church of the Advocate, North Philadelphia (1998) and was senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania (1998). She received the Shirley Chisholm Award in the Humanities (1996); her novel, The Price of a Child, was named the inaugural book in the One Book, One Philadelphia project (2003))