Marita Golden Biography
Marita Golden is an American novelist, nonfiction writer, educator, and the co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, a national resource center for African-American writers.
Marita Golden Age
She was born on 28 April 1950, in Washington, D.C., United States of America. Golden is 73 years old as of April 2023.
Marita Golden Education
Golden was born in Washington, D.C., in 1950 and attended public schools there. She earned a B.A. degree in American Studies and English from American University and an M.SC. in Journalism from Columbia University.
Marita Golden Career
After graduating from Columbia, she worked in publishing and became a freelance writer, penning feature articles for a variety of journals and newspapers, including Essence Magazine, The New York Times, and the Washington Post. Golden’s first book, Migrations of the Heart (1983), was a memoir of her experiences growing up in the 1960s, her political involvement, her marriage to a Nigerian, and her four-year stay in Nigeria. She has taught at various schools and institutions, including the University of Lagos in Lagos, Nigeria, Roxbury Community College, Emerson College, American University, George Mason University, and Virginia Commonwealth University.
She is the Writer in Residence at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington, DC. She has previously served as Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University, the University of the District of Columbia, Hampton University, Simmons College, Columbia College, William & Mary, Old Dominion University, and Howard University. As a literary activist, she co-founded the African-American Writers Guild in Washington, D.C., and the Hurston/Wright Foundation, named after Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, which serves the national and international black writer community and administers the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.
Marita Golden Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
Marita Golden Author
A Woman’s Place (1986)
Long Distance Life (1989)
And Do Remember Me (1992)
The Edge of Heaven (1999)
After (2006)
The Wide Circumference of Love (2017)