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Paule Marshall

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April 09, 1929 in Booklyn, New York, The United States

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female

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Women & Gender Studies

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Paule Marshall was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Brooklyn College (1953) and Hunter College (1955).

Marshall has taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of California, Berkeley, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Yale University before holding the Helen Gould Sheppard Chair of Literature and Culture at New York University. In 1993 she received an honorary L.H.D. from Bates College. She lives in Richmond, VA.

She is a MacArthur Fellow and is a past winner of the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. In 2009, She received the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Average rating: 3.78 · 1,277 ratings · 112 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall, Mary Helen Washington (Afterword), Edwidge Danticat (Foreword by) 3.90 avg rating — 612 ratings — published 1959 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Praisesong for the Widow 3.60 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Chosen Place, The Timeless People 4.04 avg rating — 105 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Fisher King: A Novel 3.41 avg rating — 58 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Triangular Road: A Memoir 3.47 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Daughters 3.64 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Reena and Other Stories: Including the Novella "Merle" 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1983	My rating:
	Soul Clap Hands and Sing by Paule Marshall, Darwin T. Turner (Introduction) 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1961 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Praisesong for the Widow 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1984	My rating:
	Paule Marshall Reading From "Brown Girl, Brownstones" and "Praisesong for the Widow" 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1987	My rating:

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Quotes by Paule Marshall

“He was one of those old people who give the impression of having undergone a lifetime trial by fire which they somehow managed to turn to their own good in the end; using the fire to burn away everything in them that could possibly decay, everything mortal. So that what remains finally are only their cast-iron hearts, the few muscles and bones tempered to the consistency of steel needed to move them about, the black skin annealed long ago by the sun's blaze and thus impervious to all other fires; and hidden deep within, out of harm's way, the indestructible will: old people who have the essentials to go on forever.”
― Paule Marshall, Praisesong for the Widow

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