Authors' Birthdays: November
Barbara Smith, Chinua Achebe, E. Ethelbert Miller, Gayl Jones
November brings variety with poets, novelists, and a cookbook author.
November 16: Barbara Smith is a television host, lifestyle expert, restaurant owner, and author of the cookbooks Cooking with Smitty’s Mom and Foods That Say Welcome.
November 16: Chinua Achebe (Albert Chinualumogu Achebe) is a Nigerian (Ibo) novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, and children’s book writer. He is well known for his novels Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Girls at War, Anthills of the Savannah, and many other books. He was also an ambassador and broadcaster, and has been honored with many prestigious prizes.
November 20: E. Ethelbert Miller is a poet and director of Howard University’s African-American Resource Center at Howard University. He has edited anthologies including In Search of Color Everywhere and Beyond the Frontier. His poetry collections include First Light: New and Selected Poems, Whispers, Secrets and Promises, How We Sleep on the Nights We Don’t Make Love, Where Are the Love Poems for Dictators?, and others. His memoir is Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer.
November 23: Gayl Jones is a novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet. Her books include Corregidora, Eva’s Man, Song for Anninho, The Hermit-Woman, The Healing, Mosquito, and Xarque & Other Poems.
