Bernice L. McFadden is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels including the classic Sugar and Glorious, which was featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, selected as the debut title for the One Book, One Harlem program, and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award.
She is a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award finalist, as well as the recipient of the fiction honor award from the BCALA. Her sophomore novel, The Warmest December, was praised by Nobel-prize winning author, Toni Morrison as “searing and expertly imagined.”
Her eighth novel, Gathering of Waters - a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money – will be published in January, 2012. McFadden lives in Brooklyn, New York.
In a monthly feature for Cinechicks, Books with Bernice, McFadden chooses a favorite book, one that has had a big impact on her, for all of us to read. Keep checking on this site for the announcement of the book selection, interviews and insights with the actual authors of the books, and an opportunity to have your questions answered. For a preview of January’s selection click here.
