Angela Jackson (other)
Angela Jackson is an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Angela Jackson may also refer to: * Angela Jackson (writer), British historian and writer * Angela Jackson (basketball) Angela Jackson is a collegiate women's basketball coach. She coached the Chicago State University women's basketball team, the Cougars, for 15 years. Jackson led them to win the 2010–2011 Great West Conference Championships and to the Women's B ...

Angela Jackson
Angela Jackson (born July 25, 1951) is an American poet, playwright, and novelist based in Chicago, Illinois. Jackson has been a member of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), a community that fosters the intellectual development of Black creators, since 1970.Smith, D.L. (1985). "Angela Jackson". ''Gale Literature.'' She has held teaching positions at Kennedy-King College, Columbia College Chicago, Framingham State University, and Howard University."Jackson, Angela July 25, 1951-". ''Credo Reference.'' 2018. Jackson has won numerous awards, including the American Book Award, and became the fifth Illinois Poet Laureate in 2020. Biography Childhood/early life Angela Jackson was born in Greenville, Mississippi, the fifth of nine children. She grew up in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, where her father, George Jackson Sr., and mother, Angeline Robinson Jackson, moved during the Great Migration. She was raised as a Catholic. As a child, ...
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Angela Jackson (writer)
Angela Jackson, (born 1946) is an English historian and writer. Her doctoral thesis, "''British Women and the Spanish Civil War'', was published in 2002 by Routledge. This was followed by ''Beyond the field of battle: (Testimony, Memory and Remembrance of a Cave Hospital in the Spanish Civil War'', in Catalan and English. Inspired by the first-hand testimony of some of the women she interviewed for her historical research, she went on to write a novel, ''Warm Earth'', published in 2007, also set in the period of the Spanish Civil War. At the novel's launch in Barcelona, historian Paul Preston said that, "her vibrant prose and emotional understanding breathe life into her unputdownable story of the sacrifices made and the dangers undergone by the remarkable women who went to Spain as volunteers during the civil war." In 2012, she published ''For Us it was Heaven'' (translated into Spanish under the title ''Para nosotros era el cielo''), a biography of the British nurse Patience ...
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