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Evelyn C. White
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Occupation
  • Writer
  • editor
  • journalist
  • guest speaker
NationalityAmerican
Education
Alma materHarvard University
Genre
Notable works
  • Black Women's Health Book
  • Alice Walker: A Life

Evelyn Corliss White (born 1954) is an American writer and editor. Her books include the collection Black Women's Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves and the biography Alice Walker: A Life.


Early life and education

White was born in 1954 in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Gary, Indiana attending Alain L Locke Elementary School. [1] She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College, a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University.[2]

Career

White joined the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle in the mid-1980s.[3] She published her first two books, Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships and Black Women's Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves, with Seal Press, a small feminist press based in Seattle, Washington.[4]

Black Women's Health Book included chapters from Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.[5] Writing for the New York Times, Linda Villarosa observed that some of the book's topics were "unavoidably depressing" but noted that "when the essays hit home, they hit hard".[6] Publishers Weekly summarized the book's 41 different writings as covering "the vast spectrum of the black women's health experience as patient, healer and witness".[7] In the San Francisco Chronicle Patricia Holt concluded that the book "breaks the silence, bursts the taboos, and mends many hearts along the way".[8]

While White was teaching at a writing center in Oregon, one of her students brought her into contact with the novelist Alice Walker, who had read newspaper articles that White had written for the San Francisco Chronicle.[1] After a decade of White's work on Walker's biography, Alice Walker: A Life was published by Norton in 2004, with The New York Times calling it a "rich, complex story"[9] and Publishers Weekly describing it as a "vibrant narrative".[10]

Bibliography

  • White, Evelyn C. (1985). Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships. Seal Press. OCLC 852661840.
  • White, Evelyn C., ed. (1990). Black Women's Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves. Seal Press. ISBN 9780931188862.
  • White, Evelyn C. (2004). Alice Walker: A Life. Norton. ISBN 9780393058918.
  • White, Evelyn C.; Bealy, Joanne (2009). Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone: A Photo Narrative of Black Heritage on Salt Spring Island. Dancing Crow Press. ISBN 9780973251913.

References

  1. ^ a b Dubno Shevin, Natalia (August 15, 2018). "One Burning Question: A Conversation with Evelyn C. White". The Rumpus. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  2. ^ Cucullu, Laura (November 18, 2004). "Visiting Scholar Evelyn C. White Publishes Biography of Alice Walker". The Campanil. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  3. ^ White, Evelyn C. (December 9, 2016). "Viola Desmond, Carrie Best, and serving face". Halifax Examiner. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  4. ^ "Document 13, "We are not superwomen": Navigating Finances, Identity Politics, and Vision of a Feminist Press". Digitizing American Feminisms. Oberlin College.
  5. ^ White, Evelyn C. (1990). Black Women's Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves. Seattle, Washington: Seal Press.
  6. ^ Villarosa, Linda (August 5, 1990). "IN SHORT: Nonfiction". The New York Times. p. A19. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  7. ^ "The Black Women's Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 241, no. 5. January 31, 1990. p. 86. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  8. ^ Holt, Patricia (June 24, 1990). "Health and Black Women". San Francisco Chronicle. p. 1.
  9. ^ D'Erasmo, Stacey (October 24, 2004). "'Alice Walker': In Love and Trouble". The New York Times. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  10. ^ "Alice Walker: A Life". Publishers Weekly. June 28, 2004. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
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