Head, Bessie, 1937-1986 (Personal Name)

Her When rain clouds gather, 1969, c1968.

Gardner, S. Bessie Head, a bibliography, 1986: p. 1 (d. 4/86)

Ibrahim, B. Bessie Head, a Third World woman writer in exile, 1988: leaf i (b. 7/6/37) leaf ii (d. 4/17/86 in Botswana)

Birch family, 1997: t.p. (Bessie Amelia Head)

iThe Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Head, Bessie; essayist, educator, fiction writer, print journalist; born 1937 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; studied at St. Monica's Boarding School for Coloured Girls; taught at the Clairwood Coloured School in Durban; in 1958 moving to Cape Town and start working as the reporter at the Golden City Post; in 1959 moved to Johannesburg to work for the weekend magazine Home Post; joined the militant liberation movement, the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC); in 1960 was arrested reemerged and started her own homemade newspaper, The Citizen; later moved to Botswana; died 1986 in Botswana)