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Bell Hooks was born with the name Gloria Jean Watkins. She was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky where she lived with her mother, father and six siblings.
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Bell Hooks went to a segregated school for much of her life up until the point where segregation in schools was no longer allowed. She realized that although segregation had ended, people of her skin color would not recieve the same treatment for quite some time.
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She earned her B.A. in english from Stanford University
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Bell Hooks earned her M.A. in english from the Univeristy of Wisconson-Madison
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Bell hooks began her teaching career as an english professor and senior lecturer in ethnic studies at the University of Southern California.
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Hook's first major work was published "Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women And Feminism. This book had been written many years before it was published, it was written while she was still in college but she wanted to wait to have it published until after she knew for sure that it was exactly what she wanted it to be.
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Yearning is a book written about race, gender, and cultural politics
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Bone black is a book about her childhood experiences as a poor, African American girl growing up against a background of racial segregation.
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Hooks published this book that is about love in modern society and how love has changed from what it once was.
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She spoke at a commencement cerimony at Southern California University where she spoke about government sanctioned violence and oppression.
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Hooks has written over 30 books in her lifetime so far and plans to continue writing for as long as she can. She continues to live her life as a feminist and also continues to fight for the rights of everyone and for equality for all. She no longer teaches but she continues to give speeches and talk on talk shows about her beliefs and ideals in the hopes that one day everyone will be treated as equals and segregation/discrimination will be a thing of the past.