Journalist, Short fiction Writer, Novelist, Essayist, Lecturer,

Educator.

Daughter of second-generation Barbadian immigrant parents Samuel and Ada Burke

Born in Brooklyn in 1929

As a young girl, Paule Marshall was a voracious reader

Smitten with the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, she changed her given name from Pauline to Paule (with a silent e) when she was 12 or 13

librarian for the New York Public Library a research assistant

full-time journalist, for the once very influential African American magazine Our World (1955–1956). Her writing assignments would take her to parts of the Caribbean and South America

Married her first husband, Kenneth Marshall, in 1957

In 1958, she gave birth to her first and only child, Evan-Keith

Divorced in 1969

Married Nourry Menard in 1970

Grandmother of two

Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) Soul Clap Hands and Sing (1961) The Chosen Place, the Timeless People

(1969) Reena and Other Stories (1983) Praisesong for the Widow (1983) Daughters (1991) The Fisher King (2001) Triangular Road (2009)

Racism African-American experience West-Indian migration to America Women in Society

– African-American women Western hegemony Ageism Sexism Self-actualisation

Brownstone is a brown Triassic or Jurassic sandstone which was once a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States to refer to a terraced house (row-house) clad in this material.

Owning a brownstone was, and still is, a West Indian milestone for becoming American.

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Journalist, Short fiction Writer, Novelist, Essayist, Lecturer,

Educator.