Background
Doris Jean Austin was born in 1949 in Mobile, Alabama, in the United States. She was raised by her mother and grandmother.
Doris Jean Austin was born in 1949 in Mobile, Alabama, in the United States. She was raised by her mother and grandmother.
She attended Lincoln High School.
When she was six years old, Austin moved with her family to Jersey City, New Jersey. She died in 1994 of liver cancer. From 1989 until 1994, Austin taught workshops about fiction at Columbia University and at the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center.
She co-founded the Harlem Writers Guild.
She left the guild in 1994 and co-founded The New Renaissance Guild. The group was inspired by writers groups during the Harlem Renaissance.
Arthur Flowers and Terry McMillan were involved in the group. Foreign a time she was a reporter for National Broadcasting Company Radio.
Her work has been published in Essence, Amsterdam News, and the New York Times.
Work
Austin wrote one novel, After the Garden. The novel pulls inspiration from people that attended the Baptist church Austin attended when young. She has had additional short stories appear in Street Lights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience, which she co-edited.
In McMillan"s book, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, the character Delilah was based on Austin.
Writer Carolyn Ferrell credits Austin as a mentor.
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