Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor (born January 25, 1950 in New York City) is an African American novelist. Her novel The Women of Brewster Place was adapted into a 1989 film of the same name by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions. is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... The Women of Brewster Place, (1982) is the first novel by noted American author Gloria Naylor. ... Gloria Naylors first novel The Women of Brewster Place was released as a TV miniseries in 1989. ... Oprah Winfrey, (born January 29, 1954) is a multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. ... The sign in front of Oprah Winfreys Chicago based Harpo Studios. ...

Early life

She was the first child to Roosevelt Naylor and Alberta McAlpin. As Naylor grew up, her father was a transit worker and her mother was a telephone operator. When Naylor was young, her mother encouraged her to read and keep a journal. Even though her mother barely had any education, she loved to read and often worked overtime in the fields as a sharecropper to produce enough money to join a book club. In 1963 she moved to Queens with her family. Five years later Naylor followed in her mother's footsteps and became a Jehovah's Witness though left after seven years later as ”things weren't getting better, but worse.”^[1] This article is about the borough of New York City. ...

School life

Naylor worked as a switchboard operator for a few years while taking classes at Medgar Evers College then transferring to attend Brooklyn College, Naylor received her bachelor’s degree in English. Once completing that, she attended Yale University in order to obtain her master’s degree in Afro–American studies. During her career as a professor, she taught writing and literature at several universities. She has taught at The George Washington University, New York University, Boston University, and Cornell University. Medgar Evers College (MEC) is a college campus (offering bachelors and associates degrees) of the City University of New York. ... Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York. ... Yale redirects here. ... The George Washington University (GW) is a private, coeducational university located in Washington, D.C., United States. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ... For the similarly named institution in Chestnut Hill, see Boston College. ... Cornell redirects here. ...

Career

The Women of Brewster Place was her first novel, which she wrote during her studies at Yale. This book was finished in 1983 and was widely known right after being published. She won the National Book Award for First Fiction in 1983 for her novel. Five years later, the book was turned into a movie in which Oprah Winfrey starred. Other novels which she has written often contain personal life stories and illustrate ideas from the Bible. She believes she has been subject to mind control and wrote about her experiences in the novel 1996. This lady is crazy and psycho. She is a T.I. targeted individual. Crazy woman do not meet her just read her work.^[2] For the Jimi Hendrix song, see 1983. ... The National Book Awards is one of the most preeminent literary prizes in the United States. ... Mind control (or thought control) has the premise that an outside source can control an individuals thinking, behavior or consciousness (either directly or more subtly). ...

Bibliography

• The Women of Brewster Place (1982), ISBN 0-670-77855-9
• Linden Hills (1985), ISBN 0-89919-357-9
• Mama Day (1988), ISBN 0-89919-716-7
• Bailey's Café (1992), ISBN 0-15-110450-6
• Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995), ISBN 0-316-59926-3 (editor)
• The Men of Brewster Place (1998), ISBN 0-7868-6421-4
• 1996 (2005), ISBN 0-88378-263-4

Notes

1. ^ Voices from the Gaps biography: Naylor, Gloria
2. ^ Weinberger, S: "Mind Games The Washington Post, January 14, 2007, W22

External links

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