THE CHOSEN PLACE, THE TIMELESS PEOPLE
NY: Vintage, (1984). First Vintage Books edition. 8vo, pp. 472. Author's signature on title. Paper wraps. Edges and cover little soiled, cover creased front and back at lower corners, o/w a VG tight copy. Item #54615
ISBN: 0394726332
From Wikipedia: "Marshall was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents who had migrated to New York in the 1940sShe educated at Girls High School, Brooklyn College (1953) and Hunter College, New York (1955)In 1950 she married psychologist Kenneth Marshall; they divorced in 1963. In the 1970s she married Nourry Menard, a Haitian businessman. Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose, her first novel Brown Girl, Brownstones being published in 1959. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1960 and the following year published Soul Clap Hands and Sing, a collection of four novellas that won her the National Institute of Arts Award. 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"
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