Boyd, Valerie
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Name (Latin)
Boyd, Valerie
Date of birth
1963-12-11
Date of death
2022-02-12
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Authorship
Education
Occupation
Biographers
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
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Sources of Information
- Valerie Boyd, writer, teacher, motivator and encourager, died Feb. 12, 2022 ( (February 15, 2022) )
- New York times, 19 Feb. 2022:in an obituary on page B7 (Valerie Boyd; born Valerie Jean Boyd on Dec. 11, 1963 in Atlanta, died Feb. 12 [2022] in Atlanta, aged 58; acclaimed biographer who opened doors for others; wrote a landmark biography of the novelist Zora Neale Hurston and later, as a creative writing professor at the University of Georgia, helped bring diversity to the world of Southern literature by showing a generation of women of color how to make it as journalists and essayists; arts editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution before becoming a professor at the University of Georgia)
- Valerie Boyd (December 11, 1963 - February 12, 2022) was an American writer and academic, best known for her biography of Zora Neale Hurston "Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston." Boyd was an Associate Professor and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia where she taught narrative nonfiction writing, as well as arts and literary journalism ( (Wikipedia, February, 15, 2022) )
- Boyd, V., Wrapped in rainbows, c2002:CIP t.p. (Valerie Boyd)
Wikipedia description:
Valerie Boyd (December 11, 1963 – February 12, 2022) was an American writer and academic. She was best known for her biography of Zora Neale Hurston entitled Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. She was an associate professor and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, where she taught narrative nonfiction writing, as well as arts and literary journalism.
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