Shirlee Taylor Haizlip

Susana Vega-González

Ed. by Nick Selby, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.5: African American Writing and Culture of the United States.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Philathia Bolton (University of Akron), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), A Yemisi Jimoh (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

Dates

Born 1937
Activity 1994-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Cultural Identities

African American

Activities

Primary

Autobiographer
Memoirist

Resources

Haizlip's Works

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Shirlee Taylor Haizlip is a best-selling non-fiction writer and lecturer whose first book,

The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White

(1994), came into prominence as a major work of African American autobiography. She is the author of two other autobiographical works:

In the Garden of Our Dreams: Memoirs of a Marriage

(1998) (co-authored with her husband Harold) and

Finding Grace: Two Sisters and the Search for Meaning Beyond the Color Line

(2004). She was born in 1937 in Stratford, Connecticut, in an African American upper-middle class family, and was named after Shirley Temple, the blonde blue-eyed movie star popular in the 1930s. But when she was in high school, she dropped the “y” and used instead a final “e” in her name to differentiate herself from all the…

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Citation: Vega-González, Susana. "Shirlee Taylor Haizlip". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 December 2011 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12949, accessed 21 November 2024.]