Marita Golden is an author, creative writing teacher, and lecturer. She is the author of 19 works of fiction and nonfiction
Marita Golden is an author, creative writing teacher, and lecturer. She is the author of 19 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent work of nonfiction is entitled, The Strong Black Woman How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women. She is the Co-founder and President Emeritus of the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation. Ms. Golden was a faculty member at the MFA Graduate Creative Writing Programs at George Mason University, at Virginia Commonwealth University, and the MA Creative Writing Program at John Hopkins University. She has served as Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of the District of Columbia. She is the recipient of many awards including the Writers for Writers Award presented by Barnes & Noble, an award from the Authors Guild, and the Fiction Award for her novel After, awarded by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
Marita Golden
In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah’s Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing have deeply affected their lives by expanding the conceptual borders of their communities and broadening their sense of self.
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In these words from her mother, novelist and memoirist Marita Golden learned as a girl that she was the wrong color. Her mother had absorbed “colorism” without thinking about it. But, as Golden shows in this provocative book, biases based on skin color persist–and so do their long-lasting repercussions.
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The Strong Black Woman busts the myth that Black women are fierce and resilient by letting the reader in under the mask that proclaims ‘Black don’t crack.’”
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A collection of essays that comprise a literary memoir, how Marita Golden became a successful author and the personal and professional influences on her writer's journey.
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The author of The Butler and Showdown examines 100 years of Black movies–using the struggles and triumphs of the artists, and the films themselves, as a prism to explore Black culture and the civil rights movement in America.
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I enjoyed hosting this roundtable with six of today’s most talented, creative, and impactful Black women writers. We discussed the women in our lives who inspired us to write, the women writers who modeled excellence for us, and the challenges and satisfactions of our current projects.
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In It’s All Love, Black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred.
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Distinguished author and television executive Marita Golden writes movingly about her life -- first as a black activist in the sixties in her hometown Washington, D.C., then as a journalism student in New York. In those turbulent years, she gained a profound understanding of what it means to be black in America.
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When Marita Golden decided to write her personal account of the challenges of raising a black son in today's world, she didn't intend to write more than her own faily's story. But through the story of raising her son against the backdrop of a racially divided society, Golden discovered she was also confronted the causes of the violence that surrounds African-American men.
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A Miracle Everyday takes an illuminating and intimate look at flourishing single-mother families. Single motherhood and the children of single mothers have been the subject of overwhelmingly negative statistical analysis.
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In the exciting, yet frightening days of Freedom Summer in 1963, two very different African-American women meet, each to discover in the other an elegant completion of herself.
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A collection of non-fiction pieces on love, men, and sex features the work of fourteen African-American writers and discusses eroticism, marriage, and the contemporary black psyche. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.
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It is 1968 and everything about being a Black woman in America is changing. A society once walled off has begun opening doors. Against this backdrop, three young women meet at a New England college and form a friendship that endures, heals, and dramatically shapes their lives.
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A woman flees the South of the 1920's to join the Black migration Northward, marries a black rationalist and has a daughter, who returns to the South to fight for civil rights and find her own identity
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The death of a young child can devastate a family. When a parent is responsible for the death, there is very little hope the remaining unit will survive.
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This groundbreaking multicultural anthology shares moving personal stories about the impacts of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
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