Name Martha Southgate Role Novelist | Education Smith College | |
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Awards John Steptoe New Talent Award Books The Taste of Salt, Third Girl from the Left, The Fall of Rome: A Novel, Another Way to Dance, Jeromes Fall: Roman | ||
Martha southgate reads from the fear in lhasa as felt in beijing by tsering woeser
Martha Southgate (born December 12, 1960) is an African-American novelist and essayist best known for her novel Third Girl from the Left. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, O, Premiere, and Essence.
Contents
- Martha southgate reads from the fear in lhasa as felt in beijing by tsering woeser
- Book review the taste of salt by martha southgate
- Early life
- Writing career
- Adaptations
- Works
- References
Book review the taste of salt by martha southgate
Early life
Southgate was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Smith College before obtaining an MFA in creative writing from Goddard.
Writing career
Southgate's first novel Another Way to Dance, about a 14-year-old black aspiring ballerina, was published in 1997 by Delacorte Press. For that work she won the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent.
In 2002 she released The Fall of Rome: A Novel, set in a New England college prep school.
Her third novel, Third Girl from the Left, was published in 2005.
Southgate's most recent novel, The Taste of Salt was published in 2011 by Algonquin Books.
Adaptations
In 2013 plans for an adaptation of Southgate's novel Third Girl from the Left were announced. Actresses Kerry Washington and Viola Davis were attached to star.