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In 1982, one year after graduating from Brooklyn College, Gloria
Naylor (b. 1950) made her debut on the literary scene with "The
Women of Brewster Place," The novel was critically acclaimed,
filmed as a made-for-television movie, and turned into a television
miniseries. Naylor's output now includes five novels, an edited
collection of short stories, two theater projects, and a series of
articles, essays, notes, and an unpublished work that combines
fiction and nonfiction.
"Conversations with Gloria Naylor" collects her interviews and
shows her to be one of the most talented novelists to emerge in the
past twenty years. The fourteen interviews that are included range
from 1983, soon after the publication of her first novel, to 2000,
following the publication of "The Men of Brewster Place,"
Altogether they shed light on Naylor in all her wit, wisdom, and
candor. She is the first among the current generation of African
American women novelists to have made a study of her literary
predecessors. Interviews with her are compelling in their
revelation of the evolutionary journey of a self-professed
introvert and dreamer who is as indebted to the English classics as
she is to blues, jazz, or Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye,"
An indispensable resource for a study of Naylor's life and art,
"Conversations with Gloria Naylor" offers rare insight into works
that are in the vanguard of contemporary American literature.
Maxine Lavon Montgomery, is an associate professor of English at
Florida State University and the author of "The Apocalypse in
African-American Fiction," Her work has been published in
"African-AmericanReview," "College Language Association Journal,"
the "Literary Griot," and "Obsidian II: African-American Literature
in Review,"
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