Mary Helen Washington Presents Paule Marshall: A Writer's Life
Scholar Mary Helen Washington traces Paule Marshall's overlooked role connecting Harlem Renaissance writers to contemporary Black feminist literature.
Date & Time at 7:30 PM EST
Location Greenlight Bookstore New York, US
Organizer Greenlight Bookstore
Why we picked this
Marshall wrote Brown Girl, Brownstones in 1959 and spent decades being underread. Washington's biography makes the case for why that was a mistake.
Scholar Mary Helen Washington presents her biography of author Paule Marshall, whose novel Brown Girl, Brownstones helped establish the landscape of Black women’s fiction in America. Despite her influence, Marshall remains far less known than the writers she helped make possible.
Washington’s biography traces Marshall’s significant but often overlooked role in connecting Harlem Renaissance writers to the contemporary voices of Black feminism. The evening includes a reading, discussion, and signing at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn.
Free admission.