Born February 18, 1931 (age 81) in Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Occupation: Novelist, Writer

Genres: African American literature

Notable award(s):

Presidential Medal of Freedom 2012

Nobel Prize in Literature 1993

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1988

Her most recent book is Home, which I read for my book group, The Montainville Literary Society :) . It’s a short novel, a page turner and deceptively simple. The precise style conveys so much more than you might suspect, whole worlds of experience. I especially enjoyed the scenes within the protective group of women that take care of Cee, once her brother Frank, a veteran of the war in Korea, has saved her from her abusive employer.

NY Times review of Home.