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Terry McMillan: Why I Write

Terry McMillan

When I was a little girl, I used to sit upstairs and look out my bedroom window for so long that the field was transformed into a giant playground. It was filled with modern and brand-new monkey bars, tall swings, sliding boards, see-saws -– you name it. My street wasn’t hard-packed dirt, it was smooth black asphalt, like it was in white neighborhoods. The trash and dead-branch-filled ditch in front of our house became a clean swooshing stream.  Read more >

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Full Name
Terry McMillan
Member Since
June 2011
About Me: 

I fell in love with books as a teenager while working at the local library and studied journalism at UC Berkeley and screenwriting at Columbia before writing my first novel Mama, which won both the Doubleday New Voices in Fiction Award and the American Book Award. My other novels include Disappearing Acts, Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, and The Interruption of Everything.   

Profession: 
writer
Location: 
Northern California
 

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