Alexis De Veaux

American writer and illustrator (born 1948)

Alexis De Veaux
Born	(1948-09-24) September 24, 1948 (age 75) Harlem, New York, U.S.
Education	Empire State College, State University of New York
Alma mater	University of Buffalo
Occupation(s)	Writer Illustrator

Alexis De Veaux (sometimes as Alexis DeVeaux) (born September 24, 1948) is an American writer and illustrator.^[1]^[2] She chaired the Department of Women's Studies, at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Awards

1972: Short story "Remember Him, an Outlaw" received National Black Fiction Award.^[6]
1972: First prize from Black Creation for a short story.^[1]
1973 best production award from Westchester Community College Drama Festival for Circles.^[1]
1974: NA-NI received Brooklyn Museum of Art Books for Children Award.^[6]
1981: Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday appeared on the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults list.^[1]
1981: National Endowment for the Arts fellow^[1]
1982: Unity in Media Award^[1]
1984: MADRE Humanitarian Award^[1]
1984: Fannie Lou Hamer Award^[1]
1988: An Enchanted Hair Tale received American Library Association Coretta Scott King Award.^[7]
1991: An Enchanted Hair Tale received Lorraine Hansberry Award for Excellence in Children's Literature.^[6]
2005: Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for nonfiction^[8]
2015: Yabo received the 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian General Fiction.^[9]

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.
Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday. Writers & Readers Publishing, Incorporated. 1988. ISBN 978-0-393-01954-4.
This Far by Faith: A Writer's Autobiography. State University of New York at Buffalo. 1989.
Yabo. Redbone Press. 2014.
JesusDevil: The Parables. AK Press. 2023.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography in Context. Gale. 2007. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
^ Gumbs, Alexis Pauline (February 17, 2015). "#ThisIsLuv: How My Dad Became a Queer Black Feminist". Ebony Magazine. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
^ "De Veaux, Alexis 1948– – FREE De Veaux, Alexis 1948– information | Encyclopedia.com: Find De Veaux, Alexis 1948– research". encyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 4, 2014.
^ "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.
^ ^a ^b ^c "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.
^ Smith, Henrietta M. (1999). The Coretta Scott King Awards Book: 1970-1999. Chicago: American Library Association. p. 22.
^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (November 3, 2005). "Arts, Briefly | Hurston/Wright Award Winners". The New York Times.
^ "27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced!". Lambda Literary. June 2, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2024.

External links

Official website
"Interview with Professor Alexis De Veaux" (PDF). State University of New York at Buffalo. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2014.