Gloria Naylor

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gloria Naylor
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jan 25, 1950(1950-01-25)
Age	74
Date Of Death	2016-09-28
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Gloria Naylor Biography

Gloria Naylor is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on January 25, 1950 in New York, United States. An American fiction writer and educator She is most well-known for her novel about relationships, The Women of Brewster Place (1982). Other works she wrote are Mama Day (1988) and Bailey’s Cafe (1992).

The Women of Brewster Place was developed into a movie through The Women of Brewster Place was made into a film by Oprah Winfrey‘s production company.’s production company.

Gloria Naylor (January 25, 1950 – September 28, 2016) was an American novelist, known for novels including The Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985) and Mama Day (1988).

In 1963, Naylor’s family moved to Queens and her mother joined the Jehovah’s Witnesses. An outstanding student who read voraciously, Naylor was placed into advanced classes in high school, where she immersed herself in the work of nineteenth century British novelists. Her educational aspirations, however, were delayed by the shock of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in her senior year. She decided to postpone her college education, becoming a missionary for the Jehovah’s Witnesses in New York, North Carolina, and Florida instead. She left seven years later as “things weren’t getting better, but worse.”

She was born in New York. baby of Roosevelt McCain and Alberta McAlpin.

Gloria Naylor Net Worth

Gloria Naylor is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gloria Naylor 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a student of English in Brooklyn College.

The novel she wrote, The Women of Brewster Place was awarded The Women of Brewster Place won the National Book Award.

Naylor was born in New York on January 25, 1950, the oldest child of Roosevelt Naylor and Alberta McAlpin. The Naylors, who had been sharecroppers in Robinsonville, Mississippi, had migrated to Harlem to escape life in the segregated South and seek new opportunities in New York City. Her father became a transit worker; her mother, a telephone operator. Even though Naylor’s mother had little education, she loved to read, and encouraged her daughter to read and keep a journal. Before her teen years, Gloria began writing prodigiously, filling many notebooks with observations, poems, and short stories.

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Who is Gloria Naylor Dating?

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In 2009, Naylor donated her archives to Sacred Heart University. The collection is currently on loan at Lehigh University for digitization.

Facts & Trivia

Gloria Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Gloria Naylor celebrates birthday on January 25 of every year.

What happened Gloria Naylor?

NEARY: Naylor had been living in the Virgin Islands where she died following a heart attack. She was 66 years old.

What is Gloria Naylor famous for?

Gloria Naylor was an African-American novelist whose most popular work, The Women of Brewster Place, was made into a 1984 film starring Oprah Winfrey. Naylor won the National Book Award for first fiction in 1983 for The Women of Brewster Place. Her subsequent novels included Linden Hills, Mama Day, and Bailey’s Cafe.

Is Gloria Naylor black?

Gloria Naylor was the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts (1985) and a Guggenheim fellowship (1988), Naylor was one of only a few African American women ever to receive this honor.

Where is Gloria Naylor from?

New York, NY

What did Naylor earn her bachelor degree in at Brooklyn College?

From 1975 to 1981, Naylor attended Medgar Evers College and then Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, while working as a telephone operator, majoring in nursing before switching to English, earning her bachelor’s degree in 1981.