| LC control no. | n 50025843 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9369.3.H4 |
| Personal name heading | Head, Bessie, 1937-1986 |
| Associated country | South Africa |
| Associated place | Botswana |
| Birth date | 1937-07-06 |
| Death date | 1986-04-17 |
| Place of birth | Pietermaritzburg (South Africa) |
| Place of death | Botswana |
| Affiliation | Pan Africanist Congress St. Monica's Boarding School for Coloured Girls Clairwood Coloured School Pan Africanist Congress |
| Profession or occupation | Essayists Novelists Journalists |
| Found in | Her When rain clouds gather, 1969, c1968. Gardner, S. Bessie Head, a bibliography, 1986: p. 1 (d. 4/86) Ibrahim, B. Bessie Head, a Third World woman writer in exile, 1988: leaf i (b. 7/6/37) leaf ii (d. 4/17/86 in Botswana) Birch family, 1997: t.p. (Bessie Amelia Head) iThe Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Head, Bessie; essayist, educator, fiction writer, print journalist; born 1937 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; studied at St. Monica's Boarding School for Coloured Girls; taught at the Clairwood Coloured School in Durban; in 1958 moving to Cape Town and start working as the reporter at the Golden City Post; in 1959 moved to Johannesburg to work for the weekend magazine Home Post; joined the militant liberation movement, the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC); in 1960 was arrested reemerged and started her own homemade newspaper, The Citizen; later moved to Botswana; died 1986 in Botswana) |
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