bell hooks, Award-Winning Author and Activist, Dies at 69

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Ain’t I a Woman?, The Will to Change, and Feminism is for Everybody.Born Gloria Jean Watkins, she wrote under the pen name, bell hooks, which was her maternal great grandmother’s name.She explained this in an interview, saying, “Many of us took the names of our female ancestors—bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother—to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who’d gone before us.”hooks wrote her name in lowercase letters in order to keep the focus on her ideas.Dr Karla Elliott, Lecturer in Sociology at Monash University, tweeted, “bell hooks is so central to my work, thinking, and the way I live my life.

the college’s statement said.Born Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on September 25, 1952, hooks adopted the pen name “bell hooks” from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. She kept her name in lowercase letters to shift the attention from her identity to her ideas, while intentionally breaking culturally imposed grammar rules.She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University in 1973, a master’s in English from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976 and a doctorate in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1983.Hooks published her first book of poetry, And There We Wept, in 1978 while she was teaching English and ethnic studies at the University of Southern California. Her

Acclaimed author and activist bell hooks died on Wednesday. She was 69.«The family of bell hooks is sad to announce the passing of our sister, aunt, great aunt and great great aunt,» hooks' family said in the statement.