Connie Briscoe

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.

Connie Briscoe
Born1952
Washington, D.C.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHampton University,
American University
Literary movementAfrican American fiction

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)."[1]

Life

Connie Briscoe was born in Washington, D.C. in 1952. She attended Hampton University and American University.[2]

Works
  • Sisters and Lovers, Harper Collins, New York, 1994 ISBN 9780060171162 OCLC 28927997
  • Big Girls Don't Cry, Harper Collins, New York, 1996, ISBN 9780060172770 OCLC 1002100765
  • A Long Way from Home, Harper Collins, New York, 1999, ISBN 9780060172787 OCLC 40433233
  • P. G. County, Doubleday, New York, 2002, ISBN 9780385501613 OCLC 49320448
  • Can't get enough, Doubleday, New York, 2005, ISBN 9780385501620 OCLC 57142679
  • You Only Get Better: Celebrating Life Every Step of the Way, Kimani Press, New York, 2007 ISBN 9780373830596 OCLC 85824128
  • Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50, Little Brown and Company, New York, 2007 ISBN 9780316075701 OCLC 669066898
  • Sisters and Husbands, Grand Central Publishers, New York, 2009 ISBN 9780446534895 OCLC 244628391
  • Money Can't Buy Love, Grand Central Publishers, New York, 2011, ISBN 9780446534840 OCLC 664450870

References
  1. Darryl Dickson-Carr (2005). The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction. Columbia University Press. pp. 64–5. ISBN 978-0-231-51069-1.
  2. Bernard Alger Drew (2007). 100 Most Popular African American Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 43–45. ISBN 978-1-59158-322-6.



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