Terry McMillan

http://www.terrymcmillan.com

Terry McMillan fell in love with books as a teenager while working at the local library. She studied journalism at UC Berkeley and screenwriting at Columbia before making her fiction debut with Mama, which won both the Doubleday New Voices in Fiction Award and the American Book Award. She lives in Northern California. Terry is the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of five previous novels and recipient of the Essence Award for Excellence in Literature.