![]() ![]() ![]() She never lost this pioneering spirit, bringing it to bear on more than thirty books of literary criticism, children’s fiction, poetry, and autobiography, including the New York Times bestseller All About Love. In the heyday of feminism, when the movement claimed to represent all women equally, hooks revealed in Ain’t I a Woman-written when she was only nineteen-how the specific life experiences of Black women were being marginalized. ![]() When she died in 2021, hooks left behind a lifetime of thought that was decades ahead of its time. Bell hooks was an American author who deserved the capital letters she chose to spurn.īorn Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952, she used lowercase as both an homage to her maternal great-grandmother and an attempt to keep readers’ focus where it belonged: on her work. ![]()
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