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Golden, Marita was born on April 28, 1950 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Francis Sherman and Beatrice Lee Golden.
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Product Description: A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/ Wright Foundation of African-American fiction, with selections to savor from bestselling authors as well as talented rising stars. Not since Terry McMillan's Breaking Ice have so many African-American writers been brought together in one volume. A stellar collection of works from more than fifty hot names in fiction, Gumbo represents remarkable synergy. Edited by bestselling luminaries Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris, this collection spans new and previously published tales of love and luck, inspiration and violation, hip new worlds and hallowed heritage from voices such as: ? Edwidge Danticat ? Eric Jerome Dickey ? Kenji Jasper ? John Edgar Wideman ? Terry McMillan ? David Anthony Durham ? Bertice Berry ...and many, many more Also featuring original stories by Golden and Harris themselves, Gumbo heralds the debut of the Hurston/ Wright Legacy Awards for Published Black Writers (scheduled for October 2002), and all advances and royalties from the book will support the Hurston/ Wright Foundation. Combining authors with a variety of flavorful writing, Gumbo will have readers clamoring for second helpings.
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In her classic memoir, distinguished author, television executive, and activist Marita Golden beautifully recounts an astounding journey to Africa and back. Marita Golden was raised in Washington, D.C., by a mother who was a cleaning woman and a father who was taxi-driver. For all their struggles, with life and each other, her parents instilled her with spirit and aspirations. Swept up in the heady Black Power movement of the sixties, Marita moved to New York to study journalism at Columbia--and fell in love with Femi Ajayi, a Nigerian architecture student.. Their passion led them to start a life together in Africa--a place Marita was eager to understand. Exhilarated by a world free of white racism, Marita quickly found work as a professor and embraced motherhood. But Femi's increasing expectations that she snap into the role of the submissive Nigerian wife were shocking and dispiriting. Her struggle to regain her footing and shape a black identity that was true to her spirit is suspenseful and inspiring, an uncommon tale of race, identity, and Africa.
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Distinguished author and television executive Marita Golden writes movingly about her life -- first as a black activist in the sixties in her hometown Washington, D.C., then as a journalism student in New York. In those turbulent years, she gained a profound understanding of what it means to be black in America. While studying in America, she met Femi, an African man. They fell in love and she journeyed to Nigeria to become his wife. In Africa, plunged into a culture so very different from her own, but one she felt she should understand, Marita Golden learned about both her own new sprawling Nigerian family and Nigeria's large American community. But Femi, once her strength, began to insist she fit herself into the strict mold of his society and assume the submissive role of a Nigerian wife. In her new, strange surroundings, Marita Golden discovered that home is not simply a destination, but rather something you must carry always inside you. "A marvelous journey . . . powerful imagery . . . distinctly drawn characters come alive, events pulsate with energy." -- The Washington Post Book World
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(Sharing her own experiences with raising her African-Amer...)
Sharing her own experiences with raising her African-American son against the backdrop of a racially divided society, the author confronts the causes of violence surrounding African-American men while addressing the problems faced by growing boys. Reprint. Tour.
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(Following her memoir "Migrations of the Heart" and the no...)
Following her memoir "Migrations of the Heart" and the novel "A Woman's Place", the author presents a story which explores the poetry, irony and drama of the domestic life of four generations of a black American family. It begins in North Carolina in the 1920s.
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("An engaging saga of unconditional friendship, love, and ...)
"An engaging saga of unconditional friendship, love, and foregiveness...Golden's style is modern, refreshing and accurately captures a slice of African-American life." ST. PETERSBURG TIMES In the exciting, yet frightening days of Freedom Summer in 1963, two very different African-American women meet, each to discover in the other an elegant completion of herself. Jessie, running from her sexually abusive father and distant mother, is a born actress. In the movement she discovers an unknown world of personal freedom that could shape her into an extraordinary talent or destroy her from within. Macon, beautiful, fearless, and brilliant, knows she is too good to settle for less than she's worth, but her activism threatens the man she loves. In a vital time of politics and passion, dedication and distress, two women struggle to recreate themselves and their world--and learn to love the fight.
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(The death of a young child can devastate a family. When a...)
The death of a young child can devastate a family. When a parent is responsible for the death, there is very little hope the remaining unit will survive. As The Edge of Heaven begins, Teresa, twenty, is waiting with dread for the return of her mother who has just been released from jail. Twelve years earlier, her little sister fell down a flight of stairs and died--the result of an angry, but wholly unintentional push by her mother. Teresa is on the cusp of adulthood. Her unresolved feelings toward her mother, her life with her grandmother who is now her guardian in the wake of her father's inability to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives and assume responsibility, her concerns about her boyfriend, and her worries about her future conspire to push Teresa toward a new and frightening place. With a deceptively simple style, Marita Golden once again uses her considerable talents--"her supple prose, convincing dialogue and brisk pacing" (Cleveland Plain Dealer)--to grab your heart and put you in the middle of this almost insupportable scenario. As Teresa comes to terms with the realities of the complexities of life, her inner strength and rapidly growing maturity assure us that her future will be a full one.
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Golden, Marita was born on April 28, 1950 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Francis Sherman and Beatrice Lee Golden.
Bachelor, American University, 1972. Master of Science, Columbia University, 1973. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Richmond, 1998.
She received a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies and English from American University and a M.SC. in Journalism from Columbia University. After graduating from Columbia, she worked in publishing and began a career as a free-lance writer, writing feature articles for many magazines and newspapers including Essence Magazine, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. She has taught at many colleges and universities, including the University of Lagos in Lagos Nigeria, Roxbury Community College, Emerson College, American University, George Mason University, and Virginia Commonwealth University.
She holds the position of Writer in Residence at the University of the District of Columbia, in Washington, District of Columbia Previous Writer-in-Residence positions have been held at Brandeis University, University of the District of Columbia, Hampton University, Simmons College, Columbia College, William and Mary, Old Dominion University and Howard University.
As a literary activist, she co-founded the Washington, District of Columbia-based African American Writers Guild, as well as the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, which serves the national and international community of Black writers.
(In The Edge of Heaven, Marita Golden has fashioned a dece...)
(Sharing her own experiences with raising her African-Amer...)
(Following her memoir "Migrations of the Heart" and the no...)
(Product Description: A literary rent party to benefit the...)
(A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Found...)
(Distinguished author and television executive Marita Gold...)
(In her classic memoir, distinguished author, television e...)
("An engaging saga of unconditional friendship, love, and ...)
(The death of a young child can devastate a family. When a...)
("A novel of impressive artistry and power." The Washingto...)
President Hurston Wright Foundation, Hyattsville, Maryland, 1990-1908, president emeritus. Member African American Writers Guild (president Washington 1986-1990).
Married Joseph Butlar Murray, August 23, 1991. 1 child, Akintunde Michael Kayode.