Paule Marshall

Paule Marshall
Born
Valenza Pauline Burke

(1929-04-09)April 9, 1929
DiedAugust 12, 2019(2019-08-12) (aged 90)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHunter College, City University of New York
OccupationWriter
Notable workBrown Girl, Brownstones (1959); The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (1969); Praisesong for the Widow (1983)
Spouse(s)Kenneth Marshall (married 1950; divorced 1963;
Nourry Menard (married 1970s)

Paule Marshall (April 9, 1929 – August 12, 2019) was an American writer, best known for her 1959 debut novel Brown Girl, Brownstones. In 1992, at the age of 63, Marshall was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship grant.

Life and career

Marshall was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn, New York.[1] to Adriana Viola Clement Burke and Sam Burke on April 9, 1929.[2] Marshall's father had migrated from the Caribbean island of Barbados to New York in 1919 and, during her childhood, deserted the family to join a quasi-religious cult, leaving his wife to raise their children by herself.[3] Marshall wrote about how her career was inspired by observing her mother's relationship to language: "It served as therapy, the cheapest kind available to my mother and her friends. It restored them to a sense of themselves and reaffirmed their self-worth. Through language they were able to overcome the humiliations of the work day. Confronted by a world they could not encompass, they took refuge in language."[4] Smitten with the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, Marshall changed her given name from Pauline to Paule (with a silent e) when she was 12 or 13 years old.[5]

She attended Bushwick High School and subsequently enrolled in Hunter College, City University of New York, with plans of becoming a social worker. She took ill during college and took a year off, during which time she decided to major in English Literature,[6] eventually earning her Bachelor of Arts degree at Brooklyn College in 1953 and her master's degree at Hunter College in 1955.[7][8] After graduating from college, Marshall wrote for Our World, the acclaimed nationally distributed magazine edited for African-American readers, which she credited with teaching her discipline in writing and eventually aiding her in writing her first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones.[9] In 1950, she married psychologist Kenneth Marshall; they divorced in 1963. In the 1970s, she married Nourry Menard, a Haitian businessman.[10]

Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose, her debut novel being published in 1959. Brown Girl, Brownstones tells the story of Selina Boyce, a girl growing up in a small black immigrant community.[7] Selina is caught between her mother, who wants to conform to the ideals of her new home and make the American dream come true, and her father, who longs to go back to Barbados.[7] The dominant themes in the novel – travel, migration, psychic fracture and striving for wholeness – are important structuring elements in her later works as well.[7]

Marshall received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961 and in the same year published Soul Clap Hands and Sing, a collection of four novellas that won her the National Institute of Arts Award.[10] In 1965, she was chosen by Langston Hughes to accompany him on a State Department-sponsored world tour, on which they both read their work, which was a boon to her career.[11] She subsequently published the novels The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (1969), which the New York Times Book Review called "one of the four or five most impressive novels ever written by a black American",[12] and Praisesong for the Widow (1983), the latter winning the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award in 1984.[13] In 2021, the book was reissued by McSweeney's, as part of their "Of the Diaspora" series highlighting important works in Black literature, with an introduction by Opal Palmer Adisa.

Marshall 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.[14] In 1993 she received an honorary L.H.D. from Bates College. She lived in Richmond, Virginia.

She was a 1992 MacArthur Fellow[15] and a winner of the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. She was designated as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library in 1994.

Marshall was inducted into the Celebrity Path at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 2001.

Her memoir, Triangular Road, was published in 2009.[16]

In 2010, Paule Marshall won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.[17] She died in Richmond, Virginia on August 12, 2019, having had dementia in her later years.[18] A biography by Mary Helen Washington, to be published by Yale University Press, is in preparation.[19]

Works

  • Brown Girl, Brownstones (Random House, 1959; The Feminist Press, 1981)
  • Soul Clap Hands and Sing (four short novels; Atheneum, 1961)
  • The Chosen Place, the Timeless People (Harcourt, 1969)
  • Reena and Other Stories (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1983)
  • Praisesong for the Widow (Putnam, 1983) (Reissued 2021, McSweeney's; hardcover ISBN 978-1-952-11904-0), with an introduction by Opal Palmer Adisa.)
  • Merle: A Novella, and Other Stories (Virago Press, 1985)
  • Daughters (Atheneum, 1991)
  • The Fisher King: A Novel (2001)
  • Triangular Road: A Memoir (Basic Civitas Books, 2009)

Quote

"I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital form. Not only does it allow for the kind of full-blown, richly detailed writing that I love… but it permits me to operate on many levels and to explore both the inner state of my characters as well as the worlds beyond them."[20]

References

  1. ^ Innes, Lyn (August 19, 2019). "Paule Marshall obituary". The Guardian.
  2. ^ "Paule Marshall" page Archived January 10, 2006, at the Wayback Machine at NNDB.
  3. ^ Dance, Daryl Cumber. "An Interview of Paule Marshall", The Southern Review 28, no. 1 (Winter 1992).
  4. ^ "Notes From the Book Review Archives", The New York Times, March 20, 2018, reprinting excerpt from 1983 essay by Marshall.
  5. ^ Lee, Felicia R. (March 11, 2009). "Voyage of a Girl Moored in Brooklyn". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Hoffman, Brian Gene (12 March 2008). "Marshall, Paule (1929–2019)". BlackPast. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  7. ^ a b c d Timar, Eszter. "Postcolonial Studies @ Emory".
  8. ^ Cardwel, Candace, "Marshall, Paule", in Paul Finkelman, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, Oxford University Press, USA, 2009, p. 263.
  9. ^ Pettis, Joyce; Paule Marshall (1991). "A MELUS Interview: Paule Marshall". MELUS. 17, No. 4, Black Modernism and Post-Modernism (Winter 1991–Winter 1992) (4): 117–129. doi:10.2307/467272. JSTOR 467272.
  10. ^ a b "Paule Marshall", Voices from the Gaps – University of Minnesota.
  11. ^ Yardley, Jonathan, "A memoir from Paule Marshall, author of "Brown Girl, Brownstones". The Washington Post, March 1, 2009.
  12. ^ The New York Times Book Review, November 30, 1969, p. 24.
  13. ^ Wainwright, Mary Katherine (May 29, 2018), "Marshall, Paule 1929–", Encyclopedia.com.
  14. ^ Creative Writing Program, New York University.
  15. ^ "Paule Marshall". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  16. ^ Triangular Road: A Memoir by Paule Marshall, Basic Civitas Books. ISBN 0465013597.
  17. ^ "Paule Marshall | 2009 lifetime Achievement", Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
  18. ^ Italie, Hillel (August 16, 2019), "Paule Marshall, novelist of diverse influences, dead at 90", AP.
  19. ^ "Black Lives". Yale University Press. Yale University. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  20. ^ De Veaux, Alexis, "Paule Marshall: In Celebration of Our Triumph", Essence, May 1979.

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