The woman for whom sisterhood is a way of life was born on September 25, 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

"There is no progress without struggle" those famous words of famous abolinist Fredrick Douglass are the guide for the life of bell Hooks. An active feminist, critic, social activist,author, and educator. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, hooks first tasted life after high school in the racially segregated south. As a student and one of the very few blacks at Stanford University in 1973, hooks became very interested in life and in the ways of the human condition and turned her love for reading into a blossoming writing career and graduated with a B.A. in English.

After getting her P.H.D. from University of California Santa Cruz hooks began her first trip on her road toward excellence when she wrote and published her first book Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, her book focuses on the relationship between black women, their feminity, and their ownership of racism and sexism. hook's book became very successful and over the years was used in gender and women studies classes.

Since her literary debut, hooks has written over 17 books including, the very controversial children's book "Happy to beNappy" (1999) which celebrated the joy and beauty of nappy hair and a memoir intitled Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood which focuses on hooks life as a young girl and here developmental stages . hooks has also been a professor at several colleges including Yale University, Oberlin College, and has been teaching English at City College since 1994.