"There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning." - Gayl Jones

Born to Franklin and Lucille Jones on November 23, 1949 in Lexington, Kentucky, Gayl Jones’early “connections” with the South are reflected strongly in her personal life as well as in her writing.
Much of her desire to write came from her maternal grandmother, Amanda Wilson, who wrote plays for church productions, as well as from her mother, Lucille Jones, who wrote short stories, many of them in order to entertain Gayl and her brother Franklin Jr. Jones says, “I have to say that if my mother hadn’t written and read tome when I was growing up I probably wouldn’t have even thought about it at all” (Rowell 53).
Although she has written in genres such as poetry, short stories, and critical essays, Jones is best known for her novels. Her first and perhaps most widely known novel, Corregidora was published when Jones was only 26 years old.

source: Voices from the Gaps, U Minnesota
photo: the kinté space
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