Pearl Cleage is an Atlanta based writer whose work has
won commercial acceptance and critical praise in several
genres. An award winning playwright whose Flyin'
West was the most produced new play in the country
in 1994, Pearl is also a best selling author whose first
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. Her subsequent
novels have been consistant best sellers and perennial
book club favorites. I Wish I Had A Red Dress,
her second novel, won multiple book club awards in 2001.
Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do, was
a "Good Morning America!" book club
pick in 2003, and Babylon Sisters made the ESSENCE
Magazine best seller list in 2005. Her most recent
novel, Baby Brother's Blues, was the
first pick of the new ESSENCE Book Club and an
NAACP Image Award winner for fiction
in 2007.
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friends and family
When
(my husband) Zaron and I got married, Susan Taylor surprised
us by showing up at the reception. Susan has been a friend
and great supporter of my work since I wrote my first
piece for ESSENCE many years ago....
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