Nanina Alba
Nanina Alba (1915–1968) was American poet, short-story writer and educator.
Alba was born Nannie Williemenia Champey in 1915 in Montgomery, Alabama. She was the daughter of Rev. I.C. Champey. Alba attended Haines Institute then Knoxville College, earning an AB in 1935. She also studied at Indiana University and Alabama State College, at the latter earning an MA in education in 1955. She married Reuben Andres Alba on November 27, 1937 and they had two daughters, Andrea and Pan(chita) Adams (an illustrator).
Alba taught music, French, and English in Alabama public schools before becoming professor of English at Tuskegee Institute. A poet, jazz rhythms and black vernacular featured in her collections Parchments (1963) and Parchments II (1967); her poetry was also published in journals like Crisis, Phylon and Negro Digest.
Alba died of cancer in 1968.[1]
References
- ^ "Alba, Nanina (1915–1968)." Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages, edited by Anne Commire and Deborah Klezmer, vol. 1, Yorkin Publications, 2007, p. 29. Gale eBooks. Accessed 24 Sept. 2021.