Paule Marshall, “an influential writer whose novels and short stories about ethnic identity, race and colonialism reflected her upbringing in Brooklyn as a daughter of poor immigrants from Barbados,” died August 12 aged 90 …
In a New Yorker tribute to Marshall and Toni Morrison, author Edwidge Danticat observed: “I love both women and was blessed to have spent some time in each of their company. Before I ever saw them in the flesh, I was in awe of their words.”