Terry McMillan, who was born in Port Huron, Michigan, is an African-American author. Her interest in books comes from working at a library when she was sixteen. She received her bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1986 from the University of California, Berkeley.
It [How Stella Got Her Groove Back] started as a poem, just nine pages. But it just grew and grew, I was making stuff up, exaggerating it. That’s the great thing about fiction, you can step outside yourself and look in and see more.
–Me, quoted on Salon.com, 1996