Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé was a Guadeloupean author born as Maryse Boucolon in Pointe-à-Pitre, the youngest of eight children.
She studied at Lycée Fénelon and the Sorbonne in Paris, majoring in English.
After marrying Guinean actor Mamadou Condé in 1959, she taught in Guinea, Ghana, and Senegal.
Her novels explore racial, gender, and cultural issues across various historical periods and settings.
Best known for Segu, which examines the 19th-century Bambara Empire, she also wrote about Salem's witch trials in I, Tituba.
Condé had a distinguished academic career, retiring as Professor Emeritus of French from Columbia University in 2004, having previously taught at Berkeley, UCLA, Sorbonne, and other institutions.
