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American writer and illustrator (born 1948)
Alexis De Veaux (born September 24, 1948) is a black, lesbian American writer and illustrator.
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[2] She chaired the Department of Women's Studies, at the
State University of New York at Buffalo . Her surname also appears as DeVeaux.
Life
She was born on September 24, 1948, in
Harlem , New York City. In 1976, De Veaux received her BA from
Empire State College ,
State University of New York (SUNY). De Veaux received her MA and PhD from the
University of Buffalo .
[1] She wrote for
Essence magazine, from 1979 to 1991.
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Works
Na-Ni , Harper & Row, 1973
Spirits in the street , Anchor Press, 1974
Gap Tooth Girlfriends: An Anthology , Gap Tooth Girlfriends Publications, 1981
Blue Heat: A Portfolio of Poems & Drawings, Diva Pub. Associates, 1985
This Far by Faith: A Writer's Autobiography , State University of New York at Buffalo, 1989
Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday , Writers & Readers Publishing, Incorporated, 1988,
ISBN
9780863161322
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde . W.W. Norton. 2004.
ISBN
978-0-393-01954-4 .
Yabo , Redbone Press, 2014
Awards
1972: Short story Remember Him, an Outlaw received National Black Fiction Award.
1972: First prize from Black Creation for a short story.
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1973 best production award from Westchester Community College Drama Festival for Circles .
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1974: NA-NI received Brooklyn Museum of Art Books for Children Award.
1981: Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday appeared on the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults list.
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1981:
National Endowment for the Arts fellow
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1982: Unity in Media Award
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1984: MADRE Humanitarian Award
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1984: Fannie Lou Hamer Award
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1988: An Enchanted Hair Tale received American Library Association
Coretta Scott King Award .
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1991: An Enchanted Hair Tale received Lorraine Hansberry Award for Excellence in Children's Literature.
2005: Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde received the
Hurston-Wright Legacy Award
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References
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"Contemporary Authors Online" . Biography in Context . Gale. 2007. Retrieved January 28, 2016 .
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Gumbs, Alexis Pauline (February 17, 2015).
"#ThisIsLuv: How My Dad Became a Queer Black Feminist" .
Ebony Magazine . Retrieved September 21, 2017 .
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"De Veaux, Alexis 1948– – FREE De Veaux, Alexis 1948– information | Encyclopedia.com: Find De Veaux, Alexis 1948– research" . encyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 4, 2014 .
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"De Veaux runs home - News - The Spectrum - The University of Buffalo" . ubspectrum.com. Archived from
the original on January 28, 2013. Retrieved March 4, 2014 .
^ Page, Yolanda Williams (2007).
"Alexis De Veaux" . Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers . Greenwood Publishing.
ISBN
9780313334290 .
^ Smith, Henrietta M. (1999). The Coretta Scott King Awards Book: 1970-1999 . Chicago: American Library Association. p. 22.
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"2005 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award" . Amazon. Archived from
the original on September 2, 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2014 .
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"Masani Alexis DeVeaux - Women's Work: a tribute to the women who make UB work - University Archives - University at Buffalo Libraries" . library.buffalo.edu. Archived from
the original on March 4, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2014 .
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