Marita Golden
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Marita Golden is an award-winning novelist, nonfiction writer, distinguished teacher of writing and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, a national organization that serves as a resource center for African-American writers.
Marita Golden was born in Washington, D.C. in 1950 and attended the city’s public schools. She received a B.A. in American Studies and English from American University and a M.SC. in Journalism from Columbia University. After graduating from Columbia, she worked in publishing and began a career as a free-lance writer, writing feature articles for many magazines and newspapers including Essence Magazine.
Her first book, Migrations of the Heart, was based on her experiences coming of age during the 1960’s and her political activism as well as her marriage to a Nigerian and her life in Nigeria where she lived for four years.
She has taught at many colleges and universities including the University of Lagos, in Lagos Nigeria, Roxbury Community College, and Emerson College, George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds the position of Writer in Residence at the University of the District of Columbia, in Washington, D.C.
As a literary activist, she co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based African American Writers Guild, and Hurston/Wright Foundation, which serves the national and international community of Black writers.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- Long Distance Life
- A Woman’s Place
- And Do Remember Me
- The Edge of Heaven
- After
[edit] Nonfiction
- Migrations of the Heart
- Don’t Play in the Sun One Woman’s Journey Through The Color Complex
- A Miracle Everyday: Triumph and Transformation in the Lives of Single Mothers
- Saving Our Sons Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World
[edit] Anthologies
- Skin Deep: Black and White Women on Race
- Gumbo A Celebration of African American Writing
- It’s All Love Black Writers on Soul Mates Family and Friends
[edit] Awards
- 2008 Maryland Author Award from the Association of Maryland Librarians
- 2007 Award for Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association
- Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers Award Presented by Poets and Writers
- Inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame of Writers of African Descent by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University
- Distinguished Service Award from the Authors Guild
