Linda Beatrice Brown facts for kids

Linda Beatrice Brown is an American writer and teacher. She was born in Akron, Ohio. She went to college in North Carolina at Bennett College. While there, she won awards for her writing.

Linda Brown has written many books. Some of her books include Crossing Over Jordan and The Long Walk. She writes different kinds of stories, including fiction, non-fiction, plays, and poems. Many of her writings are about the Civil Rights Movement. They also explore the struggles that came from slavery during the American Civil War.

About Linda Beatrice Brown

Her Early Life and Education

Linda Beatrice Brown was born in Ohio. Her parents were Raymond R. Brown and Edith Player Brown. She moved to North Carolina for college. She studied at Bennett College. Her aunt, Willa Beatrice Player, was the president of the college at that time.

Linda Brown studied English and French. She was the top student in her graduating class at Bennett. After college, she went to graduate school. She earned her master's degree from Case Western Reserve University. Later, she received her PhD in African American Literature and Creative Writing. This degree was from Union Institute and University.

Her Teaching Career

Linda Brown has taught at several schools and universities. These include Kent State University and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. She also taught at Guilford College.

Today, she is a special professor at Bennett College for Women. She is the Willa B. Player Distinguished Professor of the Humanities. She teaches African American literature to students there.

Awards and Recognitions

Linda Brown has received several awards for her writing. She won second place in a Creative Writing Contest at her college. She also won first place in fiction writing from the NC Coalition of the Arts. She was also invited to be a resident artist at the Headlands Center.

Books and Other Works

Published Books

• A Love Song to Black Men. Broadside Press. 1975.
• Rainbow 'Roun Mah Shoulder. Ballantine Press. 1989.
• Crossing Over Jordan, a novel. Ballantine Press. 1995.
• The Long Walk: The Story of the Presidency of Willa B. Player at Bennett College. Bennett College Women's Leadership Institute. 1999.

Articles and Short Stories

• "Beloved, A Book Review," in Religion and Intellectual Life, vol.3, Spring, 1988.
• "Treasure," a short story in O. Henry Festival Stories, Transverse Press. 1995.
• "Poetry," in Word and Witness. Carolina Academic Press. 1999.

Plays and Drama

• Congo's River Song, a one-act play. It was produced by the North Carolina Museum of Art in October 2001.
• Dangerous Pretty. This was produced as a one-act play by the North Carolina Museum of Art in 1999.
• "Dangerous Pretty", a fiction piece in The Store of Joys, edited by Houston Paschal. The North Carolina Museum of Art. 1997.