Gayles, Gloria Jean Wade (Personal Name)

Her The narrow space and the dark enclosure, 1981: t.p. (Gloria Jean Wade-Gayles)

Her No crystal stair, 1984: t.p. (Gloria Wade-Gayles)

In praise of our teachers, c2003: CIP t.p. (Gloria Wade Gayles)

LC data base, 5/22/84 (hdg.: Wade-Gayles, Gloria)

E-mail from Beacon Press, Jan. 15, 2003 (author dropped hyphen from name)

U.S. copyright file, Nov. 15, 2005 (Wade-Gales, Gloria, 1939-, Wade-Gales, Gloria Jean, 1937- )

African American National Biography, accessed April 03, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Wade-Gayles, Gloria; Gloria Jean Wade; educator, literary critic, autobiographer/memoirist, civil rights activist; born 01 July 1938 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States; BA in English from LeMoyne College; MA in American literature from Boston University; PhD in American Studies from Emory University (1981); became full professor at Spelman College (1983); released first book, No Crystal Stair: Visions of Race and Sex in Black Women's Fiction 1946-1976 (1984); published Anointed to Fly, collection of poems (1991); released acclaimed memoir, Pushed Back to Strength (1993); published autobiographical collection, Rooted Against the Wind: Personal Essays (1996); received Georgia Professor of the Year by Council for Advancement and Support of Education (1991); was a research fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute of Harvard University (1990); received Presidential Award for Scholarship from Spelman College; Emory Medal for outstanding scholarship and service (1994); the LeMoyne-Owen Du Bois Scholar's Award; the Malcolm X Award for Community Service in Atlanta)

Individual was an Emory Medal awardee.