Delores Phillips
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Delores Phillips | |
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| Picture of Delores Phillips at Soho Press Picture of Delores Phillips at Soho Press | |
| Born | September 26, 1950 |
| Died | June 7, 2014 (aged 63) |
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| Notable works | The Darkest Child (2005) Stumbling Blocks and Other Unfinished Work (2023, posth.) |
Delores Phillips (26 September 1950 – 7 June 2014) was an American author who is known for her acclaimed debut novel, The Darkest Child (Soho Press, 2005).[1][2]
Bio
[edit | edit source]Born in Georgia, Phillips explores the racial dynamics of the 1950s rural South in her book. She graduated from Cleveland State University and worked as a nurse in a facility for abused women and children in Cleveland.[3] Her poetry has appeared in Jean’s Journal, Black Times, and The Crisis. She died at the age of 63.[4]
Publications
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- The Darkest Child. Soho Press, 2018. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (New Edition with introduction by Tayari Jones.)
- Stumbling Blocks and Other Unfinished Work (2023, posth.)
References
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External links
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Categories:
- 21st-century American women writers
- Cleveland State University alumni
- Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state)
- 2014 deaths
- 1950 births
- 20th-century African-American writers
- 21st-century African-American writers
- African-American novelists
- American women novelists
- American nurses
- American women nurses
- 20th-century African-American women
- 21st-century African-American women writers
- African-American nurses