Biography of bell hooks
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Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen namebell hooks was an award-winning African-Americanradical feminist writer and speaker.
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bell hooks takes her name from her great-grandmother Bell Blair Hooks.[1] Her pen name does not use capital letters because the ideas in her writing are more important than the fact that she wrote them.[2]
Biography
[change | change source]She was born in Kentucky and grew up in a working class family.
When she was very young, she was in a racially segregated school where she did not learn with white students. Later, she went to a high school that had many white students and teachers. She went to Stanford University, University of Madison-Wisconsin, and University of California, Santa Cruz.
Biography of bell hooks
In 1976 she started teaching at the University of California.
In 1978 she published a collection of poems called And There We Wept: Poems. In 1981 she published her first aca