Connie Briscoe
The details
Biography
Introduction
Connie Briscoe (born 1952) is an American writer of romantic and historical fiction. Briscoe's first novel, Sisters and Lovers (1994), sold nearly 500,000 copies in cloth and paperback combined in its first two years. Darryl Dickson-Carr has characterized Briscoe as 'among the better writers to emerge in and benefit from the strong wave of interest in African American fiction that arose in the early 1990s after the publication of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale (1992).'
Life
Connie Briscoe was born in Washington DC in 1952. She attended Hampton University and American University.
Works
- Sisters and Lovers, 1994
- Big Girls Don't Cry, 1996
- A Long Way from Home, 1999
- P. G. County, 2002
- Can't Get Enough, 2004