Paule Marshall a writer's life / Mary Helen Washington.
| Author/creator | Washington, Mary Helen author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2026] |
| Description | 297 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Black Lives series Black lives (Yale University Press) |
| Contents | Introduction -- These is New York children -- A sort of extraordinary kind of person -- An insane notion -- The girl can write -- Things is different to before -- Black is to seek a new way -- In-betweenness -- A journey backward to find her own tribe -- I'm taking more risks -- The new generation -- Portrait of the artist -- In the presence of the ancestors. |
| Abstract | "Here is the first look at a prescient, brilliantly talented writer, a complex and fascinating woman, whose fiction single-handedly stages a reverse middle passage that extends from the United States and the Caribbean to Africa." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780300289701 |
| Genre/form | Biographies |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| ISBN | 9780300253856 hardback |
| ISBN | 0300253850 hardback |
| ISBN | ePub ebook |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000338789 |