Carolivia herron biography sample

          Growing up in the Black Baptist church, Herron, 74, was a precocious child and read the Bible by the time she was 5 or 6.

        1. Growing up in the Black Baptist church, Herron, 74, was a precocious child and read the Bible by the time she was 5 or 6.
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        3. Carolivia Herron was born on July 22, , to Oscar Smith Herron and Georgia Carol Johnson, and grew up in Washington, D.C. She earned a Ph.D.
        4. Carolivia Herron is an African American Jewish author, educator and publisher living in Washington, DC. She received her Ph.D.
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          6. Carolivia Herron was born on July 22, , to Oscar Smith Herron and Georgia Carol Johnson, and grew up in Washington, D.C. She earned a Ph.D....

          Carolivia Herron

          American writer

          Carolivia Herron (born Carol Olivia Herron;[1] July 22, 1947[2]) is an American writer of children's and adult literature, and a scholar of African-American Judaica.

          Personal life

          She was born to Oscar Smith Herron and Georgia Carol (Johnson) Herron, in Washington, D.C.

          Herron converted to Judaism in adulthood, and she has paternal-line Jewish descent from her grandmother via Jewish Geechees.[1]

          She is a founding member of "Jews of African Descent".

          Education

          She has a BA in English from Eastern Baptist College in Pennsylvania (now Eastern University).[2] She earned an M.A. in English from Villanova University in 1973, and an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in comparative literature and literary theory from the University of Pennsylvania.[2]

          Herron spent a postdoctoral research year at Brandeis University investigating the subject of African-American Jews.

          Writing

          Her debut