Three wrers at the top of their game—Deha Philyaw; Jason Reynolds and Angela Flournoy—give praise for what Gayl Jon' work has given.
Contents:
- PALMAR BY GAYL JON REVIEW – A LONG-AWAED VISN OF EEDOM
- AFTER 22 YEARS, GAYL JON RETURNS
- PALMAR BY GAYL JON REVIEW – AN ENSLAVED CHILD’S SEARCH FOR UTOPIA
- FICTN: GAYL JON’S ‘PALMAR’ REVIEW
- PALMAR: BOOK SUMMARY AND REVIEWS OF PALMAR BY GAYL JON
- GAYL JON’S EPIC OF LIBERATN
- GAYL JON WROTE THE FUTURE
- FIRST GAYL JON NOVEL 20 YEARS IS COMG THIS FALL
PALMAR BY GAYL JON REVIEW – A LONG-AWAED VISN OF EEDOM
In search of Gayl Jon, whose new novel breaks 22 years of silence. * gayl jones palmares *
Gayl Jon is a lerary legend. Source photograph by Thomas search of Gayl Jon, whose new novel breaks 22 years of by PS Spencer. Source photograph by Thomas 17, 2021I knew om the begng that I would not meet Gayl see a recent photograph of her.
AFTER 22 YEARS, GAYL JON RETURNS
When her first novels were published, the mid-1970s, Gayl Jon’s talent was hailed by wrers om Jam Baldw to John Updike. Then she disappeared. * gayl jones palmares *
Lucille, her mother, read stori she herself had wrten to Gayl and Frankl Jr.
PALMAR BY GAYL JON REVIEW – AN ENSLAVED CHILD’S SEARCH FOR UTOPIA
Gayl Jon’s long-awaed return—an epic novel of slavery and liberatn, set 17th-century lonial Brazil and blendg mythology, history, and magic. * gayl jones palmares *
Gayl started wrg around send gra.
FICTN: GAYL JON’S ‘PALMAR’ REVIEW
* gayl jones palmares *
Wh Gayl’s support, Lucille Jon published stori and novels late life, and Lucille’s wrg we n see how much the dghter mt have learned om the mother: They each e vernacular language, along wh the Southern gothic tradn, as the raw stuff of art. They were peers, and Gayl’s life has been a harvt of and homage to Lucille’s.
Gayl Jon would achieve great regnn yet follow directly her mother’s footsteps: a quiet terr geni. She told me that childhood neighbors scribe Gayl and her brother as never playg wh the other kids, though they sometim passed a ball over the fence between the Jon home and theirs.
PALMAR: BOOK SUMMARY AND REVIEWS OF PALMAR BY GAYL JON
Gayl Jon vised her grandmother there often and benefed om both a formally ted muny and a rich body of fay lore, cludg stori about a great-grandfather who found a settlement after Renstctn bearg his name, Warthumtown. When me to high school, however, Lucille sent Gayl and her brother to be among the handful of Black stunts at Henry Clay High School.
GAYL JON’S EPIC OF LIBERATN
There, acrdg to an English teacher, Sue Anne Allen, Gayl was a iendls stunt of exceptnal tellect. Her Spanish teacher and mentor, Anna Dodd, alerted the tablished wrer and Lexgton native Elizabeth Hardwick about Gayl. Hardwick turn facilated Gayl’s admissn to the small, ele Connecticut College, where she studied wh the distguished poets William Meredh and Robert Hayn.
GAYL JON WROTE THE FUTURE
This is what I me to know, too, as I pored over fdg aids of multiple librari, lookg for Gayl Jon.
I found through the Connecticut College special llectns that Jon rrpond regularly wh Meredh, and found that he, a gay whe Frost scholar, was a part of a Black lerary muny.
FIRST GAYL JON NOVEL 20 YEARS IS COMG THIS FALL
” My first enunter wh Gayl Jon was through “Corregidora.