Gayl Jones

Gayl Jones

Infobox Writer
name = Gayl Jones


birthdate = Birth date and age|1949|11|23|mf=y
birthplace = Lexington, Kentucky
deathdate =
deathplace =
occupation = novelist, poet, playwright, professor, and literary critic
genre = African American literature
movement =
notableworks = "White Rat"
influences = Alice Walker, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Michael S. Harper
influenced =

Gayl Jones (born November 23, 1949) is an African American writer from Lexington, Kentucky. [ [http://www.bookrags.com/Gayl_Jones Gayl Jones article summary] ]

Life and career

After earning the Frances Steloff Award for Fiction while attending Connecticut College, she graduated with a Masters in creative writing at Brown University. The same year, she published her first book "Corregidora". [ [http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/jones_gayl.html Biography and Bibliography] ] Ever since she left her post as associate professor from the University of Michigan, Jones has kept her life private in order to focus more on her writings. [ [http://www.answers.com/topic/gayl-jones Biography at Answers.com] ] Her papers are currently housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

elected works

Novels and Short Stories

* "Corregidora", novel, 1975.
* "Eva's Man", novel, 1976.
* "White Rat", short stories, 1977.
* "The Healing", novel, 1998.
* "Mosquito", novel, 1999.

Poetry Collection

* "Song for Anninho", poetry, 1981.
* "The Hermit-Woman", poetry, 1983.
* "Xarque and Other Poems", poetry, 1985.

Plays and Miscellaneous collections

* "Chile Woman", play, 1974.
* "Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature", criticism, 1991.

References

ee also

* African-American literature


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