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Quick facts for kids Linda Heywood
Heywood in 2016
Born	1945 (age 78–79)
Education	Brooklyn College (B.A.) Columbia University (Ph.D.)
Occupation	Professor
Spouse(s)	John Thornton
Awards	2008 Herskovits Prize (with John Thornton)
Scientific career
Institutions	Boston University

Linda Marinda Heywood (born 1945) is an American historian and professor of African American studies and history at Boston University.

Heywood has a BA from Brooklyn College and a PhD from Columbia University. In 2008, she shared the Herskovits Prize for her book (co-authored with her husband John Thornton) Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

Selected publications

• Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present. University of Rochester Press, Rochester, 2000. ISBN: 1580460631
• Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora. Cambridge University Press, 2001. (editor and contributor) ISBN: 978-0521802437
• Central African, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of America 1585-1660. Cambridge University Press, 2007. (with John Thornton) ISBN: 978-0521770651
• Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen. Harvard University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0674971820