![]() ![]() “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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