Gloria Naylor (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
In the 1980’s, Gloria Naylor became the newest voice in a tradition of black American woman writers that had begun with Zora Neale Hurston and later included Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. Naylor was one of three daughters of Roosevelt Naylor, a subway conductor, and Alberta McAlpin Naylor, a telephone operator. Her parents, always hardworking, had been cotton sharecroppers in Robinson, Mississippi, before coming north to New York. After living for many years in Harlem, they eventually acquired a modest home in Queens. In 1968, when she was eighteen, Naylor turned...
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