Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall (April 9, 1929 – Aug 12, 2019) was an American writer, best known for her 1959 debut novel ,Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959); Daughters (1992) and The Fisher King (2001). She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961 and in the same yea
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Paule Marshall (April 9, 1929 – Aug 12, 2019) was an American writer, best known for her 1959 debut novel ,Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959); Daughters (1992) and The Fisher King (2001). She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961 and in the same year published Soul Clap Hands and Sing, a collection of four novellas that won her the National Institute of Arts Award. She published novels The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (1969), which had impressive reviews from the New York Times. Marshall was a MacArthur Fellow and a winner of the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. She was designated as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library in 1994. Marshall taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of California, Berkeley, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Yale University.
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