I first encountered Carolyn F. Gerald’s article “The Black Writer and His Role” in Addison Gayle’s The Black Aesthetic anthology (1971). Gerald’s article had first appeared in The Negro Digest in 1969. The short biography at the end of Gayle’s anthology reads, “Carolyn F. Gerald, the perceptive critic and writer of ‘The Black Writer and His Role,’ lives and works in Philadelphia, Pa.” I am a fan of short biographies, of the details people choose to disclose and withhold. I did not know much else about Gerald until I
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I first encountered Carolyn F. Gerald’s article “The Black Writer and His Role” in Addison Gayle’s The Black Aesthetic anthology (1971). Gerald’s article had first appeared in The Negro Digest in 1969. The short biography at the end of Gayle’s anthology reads, “Carolyn F. Gerald, the perceptive critic and writer of ‘The Black Writer and His Role,’ lives and works in Philadelphia, Pa.” I am a fan of short biographies, of the details people choose to disclose and withhold. I did not know much else about Gerald until I