Bonner, Marita, 1898-1971

LC control no.	n 86051114
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3503.O439
Personal name heading	Bonner, Marita, 1898-1971 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Occomy, Marita Bonner, 1898-1971 Andrew, Joseph Maree, 1898-1971 Reed, Joyce N., 1898-1971 Bonner, Marieta, 1898-1971.
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1898-06-16
Death date	1971-12-06
Place of birth	Boston (Mass.)
Place of death	Chicago (Ill.)
Affiliation	Radcliffe College First Church of Christ, Scientist (Chicago, Ill.)
Profession or occupation	Educators Dramatists Essayists Novelists
Found in	Her Frye Street & environs, c1987: CIP t.p. (Marita Bonner) pub. info. (1899-1971; published under Marita Bonner, Marita Bonner Occomy, Joseph Maree Andrew, and Joyce N. Reed) Radcliffe Coll. Archives (transcript: Bonner, Marieta Odette (now Mrs. Occomy); b. 6-16-1898; grad. Radcliffe, 1922. African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bonner, Marita Odette; special educator, dramatist, educator, essayist, fiction writer; born 16 June 1898 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States; majored in English and comparative literature in Radcliffe College; graduated with a BA at a Cambridge high school (1922); published short stories, essays, and plays, most of which examined the debilitating effects of economic, racial, and sexual prejudice on black Americans; first publication - The Hands, was published in Opportunity (1925); received an award for the essay On Being Young-A Woman-and Colored, which was published in "Crisis" (1925); wrote and published several works that won awards from Crisis; moved to Chicago; her two-part narrative "Tin Can, won the Opportunity" literary prize for fiction (1933); literary career ended in 1941, the year in which she and her husband joined the First Church of Christ, Scientist.; she taught mentally and educationally disadvantaged students (1944-1963); all her works have since been collected in one volume, Frye Street and Environs: The Collected Works of Marita Bonner (1987); died 06 December 1971 in Chicago, Illinois, United States)