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Naylor, Gloria

LC control no.n 81130505
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3564.A895
Personal name headingNaylor, Gloria
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1950-01-25
Death date2016-09-28
Place of birthManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Place of deathChristiansted (United States Virgin Islands)
AffiliationBrooklyn College Yale University University of Kent Princeton University George Washington University New York University
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Novelists Journalists
Found inHer The women of Brewster Place, 1982: CIP t.p. (Gloria Naylor)
Her Mama Day, 1988: t.p. (Gloria Naylor) jkt. (b. 1950 in New York City; B.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Yale University, in the field of Afro-American studies)
African American National Biography, accessed March 4, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Naylor, Gloria; fiction writer, print journalist, educator; born 25 January, 1950 in New York, United States; Bachelor of Arts from Brooklyn College, City University of New York (1981); Master of Arts from Yale University (1983); missionary for Jehovah's Witness, travelled through New York and South (1968-1975); cultural exchange lecturer in India for United States Information Agency (1985); teacher at University of Kent, Princeton University, George Washington University, New York University, visiting professor and lecturer at Boston University; scholar in residence at the University of Pennsylvania; named senior fellow of Society for the Humanities, Cornell University; established multimedia production company One Way Production (1990); novels have been translated into more than twelve languages; was awarded Mid-Atlantic Writers Association Distinguished Writer Award (1983), Candace Award from the National Coalition of One Hundred Black Women (1986), Guggenheim Fellowship (1988), Lillian Smith Award (1989), New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1991), Brooklyn College President's Medal (1993), American Book Award (1999))
New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 4, 2016 (in obituary published Oct. 3: Gloria Naylor; b. Jan. 25, 1950, Manhattan; d. Wednesday [Sept. 28, 2016], Christiansted, V.I., aged 66; her debut novel, The women of Brewster Place, won a National Book Award and was adapted into an acclaimed mini-series that starred and was produced by Oprah Winfrey)
Associated languageeng