- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGloria Jean Watkins
- bell hooks was born on September 25, 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA. She was a writer, known for Bell Hooks: Cultural Criticism and Transformation (1997), Give a Damn Again (1995) and My Feminism (1997). She died on December 15, 2021 in Berea, Kentucky, USA.
- ChildrenNone
- ParentsVeodis WatkinsRosa Bell Oldman Watkins
- RelativesGwenda Motley(Sibling)Sarah Chambers(Sibling)Valeria Watkins(Sibling)Angela Malone(Sibling)Kenneth Watkins(Sibling)
- Author, lecturer and college professor.
- Survived by her sister, Gwenda Motley, three other sisters, Sarah Chambers, Valeria Watkins, and Angela Malone, and her brother Kenneth.
- Inducted into Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame in 2018.
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