The Washington Post, October 8th, 1991
On a rainy day in this city of Confederate monuments, Paule Marshall is sitting at a polished oak table in her apartment. There's a clear vase of waxy flame anthericum behind her. A Haitian iron sculpture hanging on the exposed-brick wall takes note of her connections to the Caribbean. She talks, in a warm, husky voice that has the trickle and splash of pouring liquid, of her six books, stories that connect her to her passionate readers, and writings that have made her a respected voice in American letters for 30 years. But none of this has made her a widely known literary star. Marshall's wor...
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