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Melvese was born and raised in NYC, currently residing in Charlotte, NC. When she is not spending time with her children she enjoys writing and her love for words encouraged her decision to pursue a career as an author. She travels to different events around the country to promote our work. Speaking to people who have ....[more]
Alice Randall is the author of The Wind Done Gone; Pushkin and the Queen of Spades; and Rebel Yell. Born in Detroit she grew up in Washington, D.C.. As a Harvard undergraduate majoring in English she studied with Julia Child as well as Harry Levin, Alan Heimert, and Nathan Huggins. After graduation Randall headed south....[more]
Vanessa Davis Griggs is an author and motivational speaker who adores the power of words both written and spoken. At the end of 1996, this former BellSouth employee left 18 years of service and stepped out on faith as she pursues her purpose and passion—writing and speaking. Resides in Irondale (a city just outside of ....[more]
Gwynne Forster was born in North Carolina, grew up in Washington, D. C., and has lived, studied and worked in New York City ever since she came of voting age. She considers herself a humanitarian, a perspective that she inherited from her mother, a high school principal, and which she also attributes to her work and ed....[more]
Fiction, Social Science
Mark Anthony has written five previous novels for TSR, including "Kindred Spirits", "Curse of the Shadow Mage", & "Escape from Undermountain", with some half-million copies total in print. He lives in Denver, Colorado, & is currently at work on the fourth book of "The Last Rune" saga.
Art, Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, History, Juvenile Nonfiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Henry Louis Gates was born on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia. A respected scholar in African American Studies, Gates graduated from Yale and Cambridge universities. A visit to Africa during the 1970s further developed his interest in African American literature and culture and helped him expand his theori....[more]
Biography & Autobiography, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Social Science
Born in Flint, Mich. and raised in Little Rock, Ark., E. L. Harris graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1977, earning a degree in journalism with honors. After college, Harris sold computers for IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and AT&T for 13 years before quitting to write his first novel. The resulting b....[more]
Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Self-help, Social Science
Walter Mosley, novelist and creator of African American detective Easy Rawlins, was born in South Central Los Angeles in 1952. He attended Goddard College and City College, CUNY, before graduating from Johnson State College in Vermont. He is a member of the executive board of PEN America Center and a member of PEN's Op....[more]
Fiction
New York Times Bestselling Author, Kimberla Lawson Roby, has published 12 novels. Her debut title, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS was originally self-published through her own company, Lenox Press. Her novels have frequented numerous bestseller lists, including The New York Times and those in The Washington Post, Publishers Weekl....[more]
Fiction, Poetry
Ntozake Shange is a writer, educator, and poet. She was born Paulette Williams in Trenton, New Jersey on October 18, 1948. Shange graduated from Barnard College in 1970 and entered the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a master's degree in 1973. It was while in graduate school that she adopted her African ....[more]
Fiction
Trisha R. Thomas lives in Seattle, Washington.
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