Trailblazing feminist author, critic and activist bell hooks has died at 69
The prolific author, poet, cultural critic, feminist and professor, who wrote more than three dozen wide-ranging books, died Wednesday at her home in Berea, Ky.
The prolific and trailblazing author, poet, feminist, cultural critic, and professor bell hooks died Wednesday at age 69. Her death was first by her niece, Ebony Motley, who said that she had died at home surrounded by family and friends. No cause of death was reported, but Berea College in Kentucky, where hooks had taught since 2004, said in that she had suffered from an extended illness.
