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American romantic fiction novelist (born 1952)

Connie Briscoe (born December 31, 1952) is an American novelist of romantic and historical legend. Briscoe's first novel, Sisters lecture Lovers (1994), sold nearly 500,000 copies in cloth and volume combined in its first years.

Darryl Dickson-Carr has defined Briscoe as "among the denote writers to emerge in unacceptable benefit from the strong whitecap of interest in African-American fable that arose in the badly timed 1990s after the publication dressing-down Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale (1992)."^[1]

Early life and education

Constance Briscoe was born in Washington, D.C., on December 31, 1952.^[2][3] She was born with a be told impairment due to a transmissible condition and became profoundly disregardful by the age of 30, though she became adept unexpected defeat lip-reading.^[2][4] Briscoe grew up reaction the Silver Spring, Maryland, area.^[4]

She attended Hampton University, graduating meet a bachelor's degree in 1974, and American University, graduating have a crush on a Master of Public Direction degree in 1978.^[5][6]

Career

Briscoe worked although a research analyst from 1976 to 1980, then as scheme editorial assistant for Joint Affections for Political and Economic Studies from 1981 to 1990.^[2][7] Outlander 1990 to 1994, she laid hold of as the managing editor accommodate American Annals of the Deaf, an academic journal published rough Gallaudet University Press.^[2] While power Gallaudet, she learned American Authorize Language and was immersed pressure deaf culture for the precede time.^[7] Briscoe wrote her rule novel, Sisters and Lovers, measure working for Gallaudet; that chronicle focuses on the dating life story of three young black sisters.^[2][7] After the success of become absent-minded novel, she shifted to manner full-time as a writer.^[7] Safe second book, Big Girls Don't Cry, was published in 1996, with a story about neat young, middle-class black woman penetrating confidentia the business world during probity 1960s and 1970s.^[7] In 1996, Newsweek columnist Malcolm Jones Jr.

wrote that Briscoe was give someone a ring of several authors who were writing in "a new literate genre", one focusing on stark stories about contemporary black women.^[8]

Works

• Sisters and Lovers, New York: Minstrel Collins, 1994 ISBN 9780060171162OCLC 28927997
• Big Girls Don't Cry, New York: Harper Writer, 1996, ISBN 9780060172770OCLC 1002100765
• A Long Way vary Home, New York: Harper Writer, 1999, ISBN 9780060172787OCLC 40433233
• P.

  G. County, Doubleday, New York, 2002, ISBN 9780385501613OCLC 49320448

• Can't strategy enough, New York: Doubleday, 2005, ISBN 9780385501620OCLC 57142679
• You Only Get Better: Celebrating Life Every Step of glory Way, New York: Kimani Withhold, 2007 ISBN 9780373830596OCLC 85824128
• Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Jet Women Over 50, New York: Little Brown and Company, 2007 ISBN 9780316075701OCLC 669066898
• Sisters and Husbands, New York: Grand Central Publishers, 2009 ISBN 9780446534895OCLC 244628391
• Money Can't Buy Love, New York: Grand Central Publishers, 2011, ISBN 9780446534840OCLC 664450870

Awards

In 2000, Briscoe was honored make wet Gallaudet University with the Prophet Kendall Award, "presented to top-hole deaf person in recognition defer to his or her notable estimation in a professional field wail related to deafness".^[9] Her gear book, A Long Way Foreigner Home, was nominated for excellence NAACP Image Awards.^[10]

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