Linda Beatrice Brown
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Linda Beatrice Brownis an American author and educator. She was born inAkron, Ohio,and went to college inNorth CarolinaatBennett College.While in North Carolina, she won several awards for her writing in both fiction and nonfiction. Brown has published many books, includingBelles of Liberty,Black Angels,Crossing Over JordanandThe Long Walk.The genres and styles of writing in which she wrote include fiction, nonfiction, playwriting and poetry. Many of her works are centered on theCivil Rights Movementand the struggles that can be rooted back toslaveryduring the time of theAmerican Civil War.
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Brown was born in Ohio, the daughter of Raymond R. Brown andEdith Player Brown.She moved toNorth Carolinato pursue her education at the collegiate level. She attended Bennett College, while her auntWilla Beatrice Playerwas the president, and majored in English and French. She graduated as the valedictorian of her graduating class at Bennett. After undergrad, she attended graduate school atCase Western Reserve Universitywhere she got her master's degree. Moving back to Ohio, she received her PhD in African American Literature and Creative Writing fromUnion Institute and University.
Career
[edit]Brown has been an educator at schools and universities includingKent State University,University of North Carolina-Greensboro,and finallyGuilford College.Presently, she is the Willa B. Player Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Bennett College for Women. She teaches African American literature there.
Awards and nominations
[edit]Brown has received awards during her time in North Carolina. These include 2nd place in the Creative Writing Contest at her college, 1st place in fiction writing from the NC Coalition of the Arts and a residency at the Headlands Center.[citation needed]
Published works
[edit]- Books
- A Love Song to Black Men.Broadside Press. 1975.
- Rainbow 'Roun Mah Shoulder.Ballantine Press. 1989.
- Crossing Over Jordan, a novel.Ballantine Press. 1995.
- The Long Walk: The Story of the Presidency of Willa B. Player at Bennett College.Bennett College Women's Leadership Institute. 1999.
- Articles
- "Beloved, A Book Review," inReligion and Intellectual Life,vol.3, Spring, 1988.
- "Treasure," a short story inO. Henry Festival Stories,Transverse Press. 1995.
- "Poetry," inWord and Witness.Carolina Academic Press. 1999.
- Drama
- Congo's River Song,a one-act play produced by the North Carolina Museum of Art, Oct 13, 2001.
- Dangerous PrettyProduced as a one-act play, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1999.
- "Dangerous Pretty", fiction inThe Store of Joys,ed. Houston Paschal. The North Carolina Museum of Art. 1997.
References
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- Bennett College alumni
- American women writers
- 1939 births
- Writers from Akron, Ohio
- Living people
- 21st-century African-American people
- 21st-century African-American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century African-American writers
- 20th-century African-American people
- 20th-century African-American women