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| Pearl
Cleage is an Atlanta-based writer whose works include three novels, What
Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day (Avon Books, 1997), I Wish I Had A
Red Dress (Morrow/Avon, 2001), and Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do, (Ballantine/One
World, August, 2003); a dozen plays, including Flyin' West, Blues for an
Alabama Sky, Hospice and Bourbon at the Border; two books of essays, Mad
at Miles: A Blackwoman's Guide to Truth and Deals With the Devil and
Other Reasons to Riot; and a book of short fiction, The Brass Bed and
Other Stories (Third World Press). She is also a performance
artist, collaborating frequently with her husband, Zaron W. Burnett,
Jr., under the title Live at Club Zebra. The two have performed
sold out shows at both the National Black Theatre Festival in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina and The National Black Arts Festival in
Atlanta, Georgia. |
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is a frequent contributor to anthologies and has been featured recently
in Proverbs for the People, Contemporary African American Fiction ,
edited by Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall and in Mending
theWorld, Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers, edited by
Rosemarie Robotham. |
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Contributing Writer to ESSENCE Magazine, and in 1998, her novel, What
Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day was an Oprah Book Club pick and
spent nine weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. |
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