Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (ed. Terry McMillan, 1990), Calling the Wind: Twentieth-Century African-American Short Stories (ed. Clarence Major, 1992) and Daughters of Africa (ed. Margaret Busby, 1992). During her career as a professor, Naylor taught writing and literature at several universities, including George Washington University, New York University, Boston University, University of Kent, University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University. In 1989 Naylor was the Zale Writer-In-Residence at Newcomb College of Tulane University. There she performed a reading of her works as well as being publicly interviewed by Filipe Smith of the Tulane English Department. Her last novel, 1996, was published by Third World Press in 2005. In the fictionalized memoir, she wrote about being surveilled and harassed by the NSA. "But they now have technology that is able to decode the brain patterns, and to detect what people are actually thinking," she said in an interview with NPR about her novel. "And they have another technology called microwave hearing, where they can actually input words into your head, bypassing your ears." In 2009, Naylor donated her archives to Sacred Heart University. The collection is currently on loan at Lehigh University for digitization. Naylor died of a heart attack on September 28, 2016, while visiting St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands. She was 66.Associated Press, "Gloria Naylor, Who Wrote 'The Women of Brewster Place,' Dies", New Daily News, October 4, 2016. In 2019, Sapphira Wade, an unfinished manuscript from Naylor's archive, was published online and in African American Review. Influence During her studies at Brooklyn College, Naylor became immersed in the works of African-American female authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and especially Toni Morrison. Drawing inspiration from these authors, Naylor began writing stories centered on the lives of African-American women, which resulted in her 1982 first novel, The Women of Brewster Place. Works The Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985), The Meanings of a Word (1986)Mama Day (1988), Bailey's Cafe (1992), Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995), (editor)The Men of Brewster Place (1999), 1996 (2005), The Women of Brewster Place Gloria Naylor won critical and popular acclaim for her first published novel, The Women of Brewster Place. In that book, as in her successive novels, including Linden Hills, Mama Day, and The Men of Brewster Place, Naylor gave an intense and vivid depiction