Check out these ten books by the legendary author. She was also the founder of the bell hooks Institute, which “celebrates, honors, and documents the life and work” of its namesake. No woman has ever written enough.”Ī native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks taught at Berea College for over 15 years. Perhaps one of her most apt quotes was this one, from 1999’s Remembered Rapture: “No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much.’ Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’. bell hooks ( 1984 2015, 159) At a moment when xenophobic nationalism has been mobilized by right-wing leaders across the globe, bell hookss critique of the profound limitations of bourgeois feminism appears remarkably prescient. From her debut, Ain't I a Woman, to the celebrated All About Love, hooks’s goal was always to enlighten. Like James Baldwin, Angela Davis, and Maya Angelou, she was not just one of America's leading writers but a necessary literary voice that brought the Black community’s stories to the forefront.Īfter receiving her bachelor’s at Stanford and going on to earn a doctorate at the University of California, hooks brought her unyielding and honest perspective to the world of feminist literature. Beginning with her first poetry collection in 1978, bell hooks-the renowned professor, writer, and activist who died on Decemat age 69-wrote a total of 34 provocative works interrogating feminism and race, challenging the ways in which they are interconnected.
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