Triangular Road: A Memoir

From New York and Europe to the Caribbean and Africa, an acclaimed novelist chronicles her coming of age as a writer

The New York Times - Blake Wilson

This book, based on a series of lectures…in places reads more like a notebook than a polished work. But it's a lovely example of a mature writer's voice, as well as a record of how she found it.

Paule Marshall is the author of Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959); Daughters (1992); and The Fisher King (2001). A MacArthur Fellow and winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, in 2009 she received the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.