Erica Simone Turnipseed
Born (1971-06-12) June 12, 1971
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
EducationYale University (BA)
Columbia University (MA)

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

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 ::
  2. 1 2 :: Erica Simone Turnipseed ::
  3. ↑ :: Erica Simone Turnipseed ::
  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. ↑ "Up South Inc". Archived from the original on 2006-08-30. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  7. ↑ Erica Simone Turnipseed from HarperCollins Publishers


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