Conversations with Gloria Naylor (Literary Conversations Series)

BIOGRAPHY ¨ LITERARY criticism ¨ AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES-->In 1982, one year after graduating from Brooklyn College, Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) made her debut on the literary scene withThe 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novels, an edited collection of short stories, two theater projects, and a series of articles, essays, notes, and an unpublished work that combines fiction and nonfiction.Conversations with Gloria Naylorcollects her interviews and shows her to be one of the most talented novelists to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 ofThe 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'sThe Bluest Eye.An indispensable resource for a study of Naylor's life and art,Conversations with Gloria Nayloroffers 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 ofThe Apocalypse in African-American Fiction. Her work has been published inAfrican-American Review,College Language Association Journal, theLiterary Griot, andObsidian II: African-American Literature in Review.Conversations with Gloria Naylor (Literary Conversations Series), was published 2004 under ISBN 9781578066322 and ISBN 1578066328.