Paule Marshall | The Fisher King
Recorded Mar 7, 2002
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20020307-paulema.mp3
Winner of the 1992 MacArthur Fellowship, Paule Marshall is the author of Brown Girl Brownstones and Praisesong for the Widow, amongst others. Her writing celebrates black immigrant communities, Afro-Diasporic culture and black women in ways that continue to break ground in American literature. The Fisher King is a novel that delves into the exiled life of 1949 Jazz pianist Sonny-Rhett Payne.
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