Gloria Naylor won the “American Book Award” for best novel for her work, The Women of Brewster Place, on April 28, 1983. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Naylor, Gloria born 1950, novelist, essayist,screenplay writer, columnist, and educator. Gloria Naylor was born in New York City on 25 January to Roosevelt  and Alberta McAlpin Naylor, who had recently migrated northward […]

Claude McKay , poet, novelist, journalist, and social and political radical, commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Born Festus Claudius McKay, he was the son of relatively prosperous peasants living in upper Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. Around the age of seven McKay went to live with and be educated by his brother, Uriah Theodore, a schoolteacher. […]