How I Came to Write Voodoo Dreams

How I Came to Write Voodoo Dreams

I can remember as a college scholarship student, surviving on bagels and high hopes, how I came across a reference to Marie Laveau in a Creole cookbook. I was struck by this amazing, larger-than-life figure, this black woman of power living amid slavery and...
How I Came to Write Douglas’s Women

How I Came to Write Douglas’s Women

My novel, Douglass’ Women, is an imaginative rendering of two women in Frederick Douglass life—his wife, Anna Douglass, and his mistress of twenty-eight years, Ottilie Assing. While Douglass has justifiably been famous for over a hundred and fifty years, Anna and...