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Terry McMillan is an African-American author. Her interest in books comes from working at a library when she was sixteen. She received her BA in journalism in 1986 from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work is characterized by strong female protagonists. Her first
About the Author
Terry McMillan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, andThe Interruption of Everything and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. Each of Ms. McMillan's seven previous novels was a New York Times bestseller, and four have been made into movies: Waiting to Exhale (Twentieth Century Fox, 1995) ; How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Twentieth Century Fox, 1998) ; Disappearing Acts (HBO Pictures, 1999) ; and A Day Late and a Dollar Short (Lifetime, 2014) . She lives in California.Photo Credit: Matthew Jordan Smith.
