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Valerie Boyd was born on 11 December, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, is an American writer and academic. Discover Valerie Boyd's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?

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Occupation Academic, Journalist, Writer,
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 11 December, 1963
Birthday 11 December
Birthplace Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Date of death February 12, 2022
Died Place Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2017

She is currently curating and editing the journals of acclaimed novelist Alice Walker. Simon & Schuster/37 Ink will publish "Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker in 2017.

2003

Published in 2003, Boyd's Wrapped in Rainbows was the first biography of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston in 25 years. Boyd said she felt a strong connection to the author since first reading Hurston's novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, during her freshman year at Northwestern University. She describes her experience as feeling called to the challenge of writing Wrapped in Rainbows when she heard Hurston's first biographer, Robert Hemenway, a white male, speak at the 1994 Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville, Florida. Hemenway suggested it was time for a new biography and this time it needed to be written by a black woman. Written in the style of literary journalism, the book weaves together scene, dialogue, and powerful prose, bringing the remarkable spirit of Hurston to life, while maintaining its accessibility to everyday readers. This is markedly different from the Hemenway biography, which maintains a more academic tone.

Boyd received the Georgia Author of the Year Award in nonfiction as well as an American Library Association Notable Book citation for her work on Wrapped in Rainbows. The Georgia Center for the Book named it one of the "25 Books That All Georgians Should Read," and the Southern Book Critics Circle honored it with the 2003 Southern Book Award for best nonfiction of the year.

1990

Boyd founded EightRock, a cutting-edge journal of black arts and culture, in 1990. In 1992, she co-founded HealthQuest, the first nationally distributed magazine focusing on African-American health, and served as its editor in chief. Boyd is a founding officer of the Alice Walker Literary Society, and currently serves on the board as secretary. Boyd is a former elected board member for the National Book Critics Circle.

1985

Boyd obtained her bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 1985 and her MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College in 1999. She had previously taught creative nonfiction in the graduate writing program at Antioch University in Los Angeles.

An accomplished journalist, Boyd enjoyed a lengthy career at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She began as a copy editor in 1985, worked over the years as a reporter, book critic and line editor, and became Arts Editor in 2001, a position she held until leaving the newspaper in 2004. Her articles, essays and reviews also appear in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Ms., Paste, The Oxford American, Book, Essence, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Creative Nonfiction, African American Review and other publications.

1963

Valerie Boyd (born December 11, 1963), is an American writer and academic, best known for her biography of Zora Neale Hurston Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. Boyd is currently an Associate Professor and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, where she teaches narrative nonfiction writing, as well as arts and literary journalism.