Background
Howard, Lillie Pearl was born on October 4, 1949 in Gadsden, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Zola Mae Howard.
( While Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston are often lin...)
While Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston are often linked together, few scholars have looked critically and systematically at what the two actually have in common. This study documents the many ways that Hurston has influenced Walker and demonstrates how Walker, by taking the best of Hurston and making it live in striking new ways, has accorded Hurston a literary immortality apart from that which Hurston earned in her own right. In so doing, Walker has also laid a solid foundation for her own literary reputation. Eleven African-American scholars have contributed their appraisals of this common bond, concentrating on parallels between Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Walker's The Color Purple; and Walker's tribute to Hurston, Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View, is reprinted.
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academic administrator English language educator
Howard, Lillie Pearl was born on October 4, 1949 in Gadsden, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Zola Mae Howard.
Bachelor, University South Alabama, 1971. Master of Arts, University New Mexico, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, University New Mexico, 1975.
Certified Institute Educational Management, Harvard University, 1988.
Assistant professor, associate professor, now Professor of English, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio., since 1975; assistant dean, then associate dean College Liberal Arts, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio., 1982-1987; assistant vice president academic affairs, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio., 1987-1988; associate vice president academic affairs, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio., since 1988.
( While Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston are often lin...)
Member American Association Higher Education, Zora Neale Hurston Society, National Association Academy Affairs Administrators, Academy Assemby of College Board. NCA consultant-evaluator, member of NCA Review Council.
Children: Kimberly Denise Kendricks, Benjamin Richard Kendricks.