Marie Brown was one of the first African American editors at a major publishing house. She was my editor at Doubleday Books and got me a contract for my first book Migrations of the Heart. But Marie was also a…
The day I interviewed Toni Morrison (for what would be the first time) I was writing an article for Essence Magazine about the rise of the Black feminist movement. We met in a French restaurant a few blocks from the…
Who are your most influential mentors? In the early 1970’s I was young, gifted, and Black living in New York City and beginning to find my voice as a writer. At a poetry reading, I gave a sheaf of poems…
What did your parents tell you that you could be? My mother Beatrice Lee Reid and my father Francis Sherman Golden made me a writer. 📚 My mother told me when I was 12 years old that one day I…
This year I am celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the publication of my debut book the memoir Migrations of the Heart. I consider the publication of that book to be the official launching of my career as writer and teacher…
