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Bookmark or Share- Paule Marshall, author of Brown Girl, BrownstonesPaule Marshall (April 9, 1929–August 12, 2019), born Valenza Pauline Burke, was a Brooklyn-born and raised writer of Barbadian, or Bajan, heritage. Best known for her first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), her subsequent novels and stories touch on cultural and ancestral themes relating to the Caribbean.
- Paule Marshall, Influential Black Novelist, Dies at 90 - The ...Paule Marshall, an influential writer whose novels and short stories about ethnic identity, race and colonialism reflected her upbringing in Brooklyn as a daughter of poor immigrants from...
- Paule Marshall | African American Novelist, Feminist WriterPaule Marshall (born April 9, 1929, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died August 12, 2019, Richmond, Virginia) was an American novelist whose works emphasized a need for black Americans to reclaim their African heritage. The Barbadian background of Burke’s parents informed all of her work.
- Paule Marshall - WikipediaPaule Marshall (April 9, 1929 – August 12, 2019) was an American writer, best known for her 1959 debut novel Brown Girl, Brownstones. In 1992, at the age of 63, Marshall was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship grant.
- Paule Marshall, novelist of diverse influences, dead at 90NEW YORK — Paule Marshall, an exuberant and sharpened storyteller who in fiction such as “Daughters” and “Brown Girl, Brownstones” drew upon classic and vernacular literature and her mother’s...
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