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The daughter of David Leonard Faculty and Dora Smith, both natives of Arkansas, she was born Beverly Faculty in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Greenville, Mississippi.
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Madam C. J. Walker is an American rags-to-riches icon. Born to former slaves in Louisiana in 1867, she went on to become a prominent African American businesswoman and the first female self-made millionaire in U.S. history. The story of her transformation from a laundress to a tremendously successful entrepreneur is both inspirational and mysterious, as many of the details of her early life remain obscure. In this superior biography, Beverly Lowry’s abundant research fleshes out Walker’s thinly documented story and frames it in the roiling race relations of her day. Walker grew up illiterate and worked as a washerwoman well into her thirties before staking her future on a “Wonderful Hair Grower.” Defying all odds, Walker learned to read and write, mastered marketing and spin, and built a booming cosmetics empire that provided lucrative work for thousands of black women and allowed her to engage in philanthropy and civil rights activism until her death in a Westchester mansion in 1919. Spanning from the antebellum South to the Harlem Renaissance, Lowry brings this intriguing and important woman vividly to life.
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Thirty years after leaving Eunola, Mississippi, to pursue her dreams of becoming a dancer, Leland Standard returns with her son, and a dinner party given in her honor brings to light the secrets, desires, and life stories of the guests. 15,000 first printing.
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Actress Pauline Terry is so successful in a performance of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya that one critic calls her the perfect Sonya.” But her life is not what she expected when she left Texas for Broadway. She swims in a fish tank in a New Jersey bar to make a living, most auditions do not result in callbacks, and her marriage is shaky. Called home by her father’s imminent death, she confronts both the past she thought she’d left behind and her uncertain future. For solace she turns to her aunt’s former husband, Will Hand, a professor and nature writer. But their affair is brief and leaves her more uncertain than ever. Back in New York, Pauline realizes that her life onstage cannot make up for the emptiness of her life offstage. Her return to Texas was a transforming experience, leading her ultimately to come to terms with her childhood memories, her marriage, her dramatic ambitions, and finally, herself. The Perfect Sonya, first published in 1987 by Viking Penguin, won the Jesse Jones Award for the Best Novel of 1987 from the Texas Institute of Letters.
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The daughter of David Leonard Faculty and Dora Smith, both natives of Arkansas, she was born Beverly Faculty in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Greenville, Mississippi.
She was educated at the University of Mississippi and Memphis State University, receiving a Bachelor from the latter institution in 1960.
In 1965, the family moved to Houston and she began writing. In 1976, Lowry began teaching fiction writing at the University of Houston. In 1977, she published her first novel Come Back, Lolly Ray.
This was followed by Emma Blue in 1978.
In the 1990s, Lowry moved to Los Los Angeles She taught at George Mason University.
She has served as president of the Texas Institute of Letters.
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( Actress Pauline Terry is so successful in a performance...)
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