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Marita Golden (born April 28, 1950) [1] is an American novelist, nonfiction writer, professor, [2] and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, a national organization that serves as a resource center for African-American writers.
- Moved to Nigeria
- Critical Acclaim For Second Novel
- Female Friendship and The Freedom Rides
- Saving Our Sons A Commercial Success
- A Catalyst For A Younger Generation
- Selected Writings
- Sources
Thanks in part to her father’s extroverted, ebullient nature, Golden said she learned from him “that I was worth listening and talking to,” she told Colman McCarthy in the Washington Post. As a teen, Golden attended Western High School (now renamed Duke Ellington High School), and was awarded a scholarship to American University, also in the nation...
Golden’s second novel, Long Distance Life, became a bestseller in the DC area. A multi-generation family saga, it begins with Naomi Johnson, a character whose journey from the sharecropper South to urban prosperity was similar to that undertaken by Golden’s own mother. Johnson’s daughter, Esther, comes of age in the 1960s, as Golden herself did, an...
In Golden’s third novel, And Do Remember Me (1992), the civil rights movement of the Sixties and its attendant violence again serves as an important catalyst for her characters. Its protagonist, Jessie, is a young woman who flees an abusive home in the Deep South. She becomes involved in the organized efforts at voter registration and desegregation...
In the book, Golden wrote of the problems her son faced and theorized as to their origins. She worked in socioeconomics and African American history, and compared his life in the United States with what might have been had they remained in Nigeria. The denouement of the book comes with his reunion with his birth father, whom he never knew. Golden h...
Golden is a contributor to Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry, and edited Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues, both collections of works by African American women writers. She is also determined to help pave the way for a new generation to follow hers. While at George Mason University, she noticed how few African American students were enroll...
Migrations of the Heart(autobiography), Doubleday, 1983. A Woman’s Place(novel), Doubleday, 1986. Long Distance Life(novel), Doubleday, 1989. And Do Remember Me(novel), Doubleday, 1992. (Editor) Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues,Double-day, 1993. (Contributor) Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry,edited by Charlotte Watson Sherman, Harper Per...
Periodicals
American Visions,October-November 1993, p. 35. Black American Literature Forum,Winter 1990. Boston Globe,July 27, 1992, p. 30. Entertainment Weekly,February 3, 1995, p. 49. Essence,September 1993, p. 79; February 1995, p. 52. Harvard Educational Review,Winter 1996, pp. 879-881. Jet,June 12, 1997, p. 12. Journal of Higher Education,June 14, 1996, pp. A45-46. Library Journal,November 1, 1997, p. 115. New York Times,April 5, 1998. Publishers Weekly,June 7, 1993, p. 58; July 11, 1994, p. 74; Octo...
Mar 27, 2020 · A prolific author, novelist, writer, activist, and advocate, Marita Golden is a literary genius whose words and work continue to inspire across generations. Marita Golden’s interview is a part of our March theme, “Sankofa: Honoring Our Black Feminist Pioneers.”
Marita Golden on Raising a Black Child "In a Turbulent World" Golden in the author of the new memoir, "Saving Our Sons." She writes about bringing up her son in Washington D.C., where homicide is the leading cause of death for Black males between 18 and 24.
Apr 20, 2004 · In a hard-hitting meditation on the role that color plays among African Americans and in wider society, Marita Golden dares to put herself on the line, expressing her fears and rage about how she has navigated through the color complex.
Marita Golden's first novel, A Woman's Place (1986), chronicles a fifteen-year period in the lives of three African American women, Faith, Crystal, and Serena, who meet and become lifelong friends at an elite Boston college during the 1970s. After dropping out of college as a casualty of its new open admissions policy and suffering the death of ...
Through the story of raising her son against the backdrop of a racially divided society, Golden confronts the causes of the violence that surrounds African-American men...
