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Novelist Gloria Naylor on Her Life and Career.

Writer Gloria Naylor. Her novels, Linden Hills and the recent Mama Day create a world in which blacks achieve success at the expense of their own history and identity. Naylor's first work, The Women of Brewster Place, won the 1983 American Book Award for First Fiction.

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Other segments from the episode on February 23, 1988

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, February 23, 1988: Interview with Divine; Commentary on Doug Sahm; Interview with Gloria Naylor; Review of Roger Angell's essay collection "Season Ticket."

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