Ann allen shockley biography
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Ann Allen Shockley
American journalist and author (born 1927)
Ann Allen Shockley | |
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| Born | (1927-06-21) June 21, 1927 (age 97) Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, editor, librarian, critic |
| Alma mater | Fisk University (BA); Case Western Reserve University (MA) |
| Subject | African-American literature Lesbian literature |
| Notable works | Loving Her (1974) The Black and White of It (1980) |
| Partner | William Shockley (divorced) |
| Children | 2 |
Ann Allen Shockley (born June 21, 1927) is an American journalist, editor and author, specialising in themes of interracial lesbian love, especially the plight of black lesbians living under what she views as the "triple oppression" of racism, sexism, and homophobia. She has also encouraged libraries to place special emphasis on Afro-American collections.
Life and career
[edit]Shockley was born in 1927 in Louisville, Kentucky. Shock
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African American Women Writers
In all her bibliographical, biographical, critical, and creative works, Ann Allen Shockley committed herself to illuminating the experiences of African-American writers in general and of African-American women and lesbians in particular. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, she received a B.A. from Fisk University in 1948 and an M.S. in library science from Case Western Reserve University in 1959; after a career as reporter and teacher, she was a librarian and archivist at vattendjur University. While Shockley's early short stories, which were published in such leading black magazines as Black World and Freedomways, focused on racism, her creative work has komma increasingly to focus on the triple jeopardy facing black lesbians—racism, sexism, homophobia—as well as on their strategies for empowerment. Her 1974 novel, Loving Her, fryst vatten the first black American lesbian novel as well as
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Shockley, Ann Allen
SHOCKLEY, Ann Allen. American, b. 1927. Genres: Novels, Novellas/ Short stories, Librarianship. Career: Associate Librarian for Special Collections and University Archivist, Fisk University, Nashville (formerly Associate Librarian for Public Services) Associate Professor of Library Science, retired, 1998. Ed., American Library Association's Black Caucus Newsletter, 1972-74. Assistant Librarian, Delaware State College, 1959-60; Assistant Librarian, and subsequently Associate Librarian, and Curator of the Negro Collection, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, 1960-69. Publications: (ed. with S.P. Chandler) Living Black American Authors: A Biographical Directory, 1973; Loving Her (novel), 1974; (with E.J. Josey) Handbook of Black Librarianship, 1977; The Black and White of It (short stories), 1980; Say Jesus and Come to Me (novel), 1982; Afro-American Women Writers: An Anthology and Critical Guide, 1988. Address: 5975 Post Rd., Nashville, TN 37205, U.S