Erica Simone Turnipseed

Erica Simone Turnipseed (born June 12, 1971) is an African American novelist.

Erica Simone Turnipseed
Born (1971-06-12) June 12, 1971
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican

Education

Turnipseed earned her B.A. and M.A degrees in anthropology from Yale University and Columbia University respectively.[1]

Career

Her debut novel A Love Noire[2] won the Atlanta Choice Award Author of the Year from the Atlanta Daily World. She published her second novel Hunger in 2006.[2] Complementing Turnipseed's first two novels is A Love Noire/Hunger: The Soundtrack.[3]

In addition, Turnipseed was nominated for Breakout Author of the Year for the African American Literary Awards Show Open Book Award.[4]

Among her many appearances, Turnipseed has served as a guest lecturer at Spelman College, Medgar Evers College, Baruch College, Midwood High School, and Yale University. She was a panelist at the inaugural Brooklyn Book Festival,[5] the Brooklyn Best Festival, and the Up South International Book Festival.[6]

She is also the founder of the "Five Years for the House Initiative," a fund raising drive for the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale.

She lives with her husband in Brooklyn, New York.[7]

References
  1. :: Erica Simone Turnipseed ::
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  4. "Literary Award Show. African American authors and writers". Archived from the original on 2007-07-06. Retrieved 2007-09-24.
  5. Brooklyn Book Festival
  6. http://www.upsouthinternationalbookfestival.com
  7. Erica Simone Turnipseed from HarperCollins Publishers
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