Paule marshall biography of williams

Paule Histrion, 1929-2019.  Photo Copyright © The Related Press.

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John Alfred Williams (1925–2015)

John Alfred Williams was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and raised in Syracuse, New York. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1943, serving as a pharmacist’s mate in the South Pacific, and attended Syracuse University on the G.I. Bill, graduating with a degree in English and journalism in 1950. Married with two sons, he worked at various jobs to make ends meet. Between separation and divorce, Williams moved to Los Angeles, where he worked briefly in insurance and television publicity before returning to the East Coast. He then worked for a vanity press in Manhattan, where he met Lorrain Isaac, who became his second wife and mother of his third son. After working in radio, for the American Committee on Africa, and on journalism assignments abroad, he published his first novel, The Angry Ones (1960), a.k.a. One for New York.

Williams had one of the most prolific careers in twentieth-century American letters. He is perhaps best known for The Man Who Cried I Am (1967), a novel about a dying African American writer in Europe who learns of the “King Alfred Plan,” a government plot to eliminate Black unrest in America. Other novels include Night Song (1961), Sissie (1963), Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light (1969), Captain Blackman (1972), M

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Abstract

This introduction provides an overview of the special issue that focuses on the interconnections of Black women’s literary studies with the crises of COVID-19 and ongoing anti-Black violence. More specifically, it considers how the work of three renowned writers, Paule Marshall, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison—which collectively spans over fifty years—offers models for how to reimagine our current circumstances and create more just futures in our national and global communities. The essay identifies and expounds on the overarching question of the special issue: how does the work of Marshall, Shange, and Morrison speak to contemporary affairs and concerns? By engaging this question, this collection of essays offers new insights about these women’s writing in particular and expands the corpus of scholarship on Black women’s writing in general. In the aftermath of the passing of these writers, a collective reappraisal of their oeuvres is a timely and fitting tribute, as each of their bodies of work reveals that they long have engaged concerns about Black people’s encounters with systemic barriers that have laid the foundation for the current twinned crises of anti-Black violence and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19.

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