Deborah E. McDowell

Deborah E. McDowell (born 1951) is an American author and professor,[1][2] the Alice Griffin professor of literary studies, and the director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, at the University of Virginia.

Early life

Mcdowell was born and raised in Bessemer, Alabama. She wrote about her childhood in her debut memoir Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin.

Academic and writing career

McDowell received a B.A. from Tuskegee University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. She has been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 1987. She founded the African-American Women Writers Series at Beacon Press, and was its editor from 1985 to 1993.

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