Marshall, Paule
Marshall, Paule( 1929– ),born in Brooklyn of Barbadian heritage, educated at Brooklyn and Hunter colleges. Her autobiographically grounded first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), though a commercial failure on first publication, has become a classic in the female coming-of-age genre. Praisesong for the Widow (1983), her other widely read novel, concerns a financially comfortable middle-class widow in her sixties who has completely lost touch with her West Indian and African-American roots but determines to recover them during a luxury cruise through the West Indies in the course of which she has disturbing dreams. Her seventh novel, The Fisher King (2000), is a two-family drama set in Brooklyn in the late1940s. Soul Clap Hands and Sing (1961) prints short stories, as does Reena and Other Stories (1983).
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