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Terry McMillan Author of women-centric novels

Terry McMillan

Biography 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. Her work is characterized by strong female protagonists.

Her first book, Mama, was self-promoted. She achieved national attention in 1992 with her third novel, Waiting to Exhale, which remained on The New York Times bestseller list for many months. Forest Whitaker turned it into a film in 1995. In 1998, another of McMillan’s novels, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, was made into a movie. McMillan’s novel Disappearing Acts was subsequently produced as a direct-to-cable feature, starring Wesley Snipes and Sanaa Lathan.

Her most recent work, The Interruption of Everything, was published on July 19th, 2005.

Bibliography

Mama (1987)
Disappearing Acts (1989)
Waiting to Exhale (1992)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1996)
A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2001)
The Interruption of Everything (2005)

Upcoming Works

  • The Black Nation's Cry

Family

  • Son Solomon just graduated Stanford

Causes I Support

University Affiliation

  • Visiting Professor, Stanford University

Agents

  • Aaron Priest Literary Agency

Contact Agents

  • (212) 818-0344

Publishers

  • Houghton Mifflin
    NAL Trade
    Penguin Group USA
    Pocket Books
    Signet
    Viking

Contact Publishers

  • Publicity, Author Mail
    c/o Viking Penguin
    375 Hudson Street
    New York, NY 10014

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