Paule Marshall is the bomb. That's all.

Paule Marshall is the bomb. Her first collection of short stories was published in 1969 and she is still publishing novels to this day. She is associated with the renaissance of black women writers that began around the time of Alice Walker's Publication of In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens in the late 1970s, but she actually preceeds Walker, Toni Morrison, Toni Cade Bambara, and most of the other great black women writers that we associate with that incredible moment of renewal and rebirth. In the last thirty years, the idea of black women writing has become less of a novelty in the public imagination. And it's a shame that Marshall's role in paving the way for people like Edwidge Danticat, Zadie Smith. . .