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Gloria Naylor
| born |
January 25, 1950
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| gender |
female |
| place of birth |
The United States |
| genre |
Literature & Fiction
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about this author
Gloria Naylor (b. January 25, 1950 in New York City) is an African American novelist. Her novel The Women of Brewster Place was adapted into a 1989 film of the same name by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions.
She was the first child to Roosevelt Naylor and Alberta McAlpin and in 1963 moved to Queens with her family. She joined the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1968. She believes she has been subject to mind control.
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