“Equipped with only a high school education but, as a voracious reader, fortified with a copious vocabulary, Ms. Hawkins left her literary imprint on a cultural landscape dominated by men and as a mentor to a generation of female writers.”
“Equipped with only a high school education but, as a voracious reader, fortified with a copious vocabulary, Ms. Hawkins left her literary imprint on a cultural landscape dominated by men and as a mentor to a generation of female writers.”