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Bernice McFadden

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Nationality
  
American

Genre
  
novel

Ethnicity
  
African American

Bernice L. McFadden (born 1966) is an American novelist. She has also written romance novels as Geneva Holliday.

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Life

McFadden was born in Brooklyn. She studied at Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, Marymount College, and Fordham University.

The New York Times described her 2010 novel Glorious as exhibiting "a wonderful ear for dialogue".

Her 2016 novel The Book of Harlan was nominated for the 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction. The book, in which a jazz musician is imprisoned at Buchenwald after migrating from the US to Paris in the 1930s, was called "simply miraculous" by the Washington Post, and listed as a notable work of 2016.

Works

  • The Book of Harlan. Akashic Books. 11 April 2016. ISBN 978-1-61775-454-8. 
  • Gathering of Waters. Akashic Books. 31 January 2012. ISBN 978-1-61775-031-1. 
  • Sugar: A Novel. Penguin. 2 January 2001. ISBN 978-1-101-14397-1. 
  • Glorious. Akashic Books. 1 May 2010. ISBN 978-1-936070-78-7. 
  • The Warmest December. Akashic Books. January 2012. ISBN 978-1-61775-035-9. 

    • References

    Bernice McFadden Wikipedia
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