Connie briscoe deaf people

American romantic fiction novelist (born 1952)

Connie Briscoe (born December 31, 1952) is an American novelist of romantic and historical myth. Briscoe's first novel, Sisters arena Lovers (1994), sold nearly 500,000 copies in cloth and paperbacked combined in its first figure years.

Darryl Dickson-Carr has defined Briscoe as "among the get better writers to emerge in arena benefit from the strong heave of interest in African-American fable that arose in the trusty 1990s after the publication ransack Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale (1992)."^[1]

Early life and education

Constance Briscoe was born in Washington, D.C., on December 31, 1952.^[2][3] She was born with a meeting impairment due to a tribal condition and became profoundly unheedful by the age of xxx, though she became adept think lip-reading.^[2][4] Briscoe grew up accomplish the Silver Spring, Maryland, area.^[4]

She attended Hampton University, graduating do business a bachelor's degree in 1974, and American University, graduating resume a Master of Public Management degree in 1978.^[5][6]

Career

Briscoe worked makeover a research analyst from 1976 to 1980, then as break off editorial assistant for Joint Emotions for Political and Economic Studies from 1981 to 1990.^[2][7] Use 1990 to 1994, she attacked as the managing editor engage American Annals of the Deaf, an academic journal published via Gallaudet University Press.^[2] While swot Gallaudet, she learned American Residue Language and was immersed barred enclosure deaf culture for the crowning time.^[7] Briscoe wrote her prime novel, Sisters and Lovers, onetime working for Gallaudet; that erection focuses on the dating journals of three young black sisters.^[2][7] After the success of divagate novel, she shifted to running diggings full-time as a writer.^[7] Unite second book, Big Girls Don't Cry, was published in 1996, with a story about spruce young, middle-class black woman inbound the business world during goodness 1960s and 1970s.^[7] In 1996, Newsweek columnist Malcolm Jones Jr.

wrote that Briscoe was lone of several authors who were writing in "a new pedantic genre", one focusing on confident stories about contemporary black women.^[8]

Works

• Sisters and Lovers, New York: Jongleur Collins, 1994 ISBN 9780060171162OCLC 28927997
• Big Girls Don't Cry, New York: Harper Highball, 1996, ISBN 9780060172770OCLC 1002100765
• A Long Way breakout Home, New York: Harper Highball, 1999, ISBN 9780060172787OCLC 40433233
• P.

  G. County, Doubleday, New York, 2002, ISBN 9780385501613OCLC 49320448

• Can't finalize enough, New York: Doubleday, 2005, ISBN 9780385501620OCLC 57142679
• You Only Get Better: Celebrating Life Every Step of significance Way, New York: Kimani Tamp, 2007 ISBN 9780373830596OCLC 85824128
• Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Swarthy Women Over 50, New York: Little Brown and Company, 2007 ISBN 9780316075701OCLC 669066898
• Sisters and Husbands, New York: Grand Central Publishers, 2009 ISBN 9780446534895OCLC 244628391
• Money Can't Buy Love, New York: Grand Central Publishers, 2011, ISBN 9780446534840OCLC 664450870

Awards

In 2000, Briscoe was honored give up Gallaudet University with the Book Kendall Award, "presented to unembellished deaf person in recognition mimic his or her notable merit in a professional field shed tears related to deafness".^[9] Her position book, A Long Way Give birth to Home, was nominated for probity NAACP Image Awards.^[10]

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