Gayl Jones (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
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Poet, novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and teacher, Gayl Jones is best known for the
intensity and probing nature of her gothic tales,
which mix the conventions of the gothic with radically unconventional worlds of madness,
sexuality, and violence. Jones began writing seriously at age seven under the encouraging and
guiding influence of her grandmother, her mother, and her high school Spanish teacher, Anna
Dodd. Later, her mentors would be Michael S.
Harper and [The entire page is 710 words long]
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