I would say my first story was penned by age eight. “I guess all of the literature I was consuming helped to fuel my already active imagination and so very early on I began writing short stories and plays. “I was always an avid reader and dreamer, ” she told Nubian Chronicles Online.

Cyril Academy, an all-girls boarding school located in Danville, Pennsylvania. She left home to attend high school at St. 161 and middle school at Holy Spirit, both in Brooklyn. The eldest of four children, McFadden was born and raised in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. Shunned Writing Dreams for Corporate Career Within a few years she no longer needed to worry about her corporate career she had become a successful full-time writer. ” She took advantage of her time off to throw herself into writing and it paid off. “A young, single black mother with no job. “I really felt like a statistic, ” McFadden told USA Today. Though she had always dreamed of becoming a writer, it wasn ’t until she was laid off from her cushy corporate job that she began writing seriously. Her debut, the emotionally-gripping Sugar, earned a handful of awards and elicited comparison ’s to the work of Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston. McFadden has garnered accolades from literary powerhouses like Toni Morrison and Terry McMilllan. With four best-selling novels published between 20, Bernice L.

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