Paule Marshall

Paule Marshall was an accomplished American author whose works were widely acclaimed by readers and critics alike. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn, New York on April 9, 1929. Marshall was greatly influenced by the Barbadian background of her parents, and she even spent a year there in 1938-39. She graduated from Brooklyn College in 1953 and worked as a librarian and food and fashion editor for Our World, an African American magazine from 1953-1956.