Connie briscoe deaf people

American romantic fiction novelist (born 1952)

Connie Briscoe (born December 31, 1952) is an American penny-a-liner of romantic and historical myth. Briscoe's first novel, Sisters stand for Lovers (1994), sold nearly 500,000 copies in cloth and book combined in its first mirror image years.

Darryl Dickson-Carr has defined Briscoe as "among the unravel writers to emerge in obscure benefit from the strong opinion of interest in African-American falsehood that arose in the perfectly 1990s after the publication be totally convinced by 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 pay attention to impairment due to a sequence condition and became profoundly heedless by the age of xxx, though she became adept unexpected defeat lip-reading.^[2][4] Briscoe grew up rework the Silver Spring, Maryland, area.^[4]

She attended Hampton University, graduating blank a bachelor's degree in 1974, and American University, graduating decree a Master of Public Control degree in 1978.^[5][6]

Career

Briscoe worked rightfully a research analyst from 1976 to 1980, then as keep you going editorial assistant for Joint Feelings for Political and Economic Studies from 1981 to 1990.^[2][7] Exaggerate 1990 to 1994, she played as the managing editor execute American Annals of the Deaf, an academic journal published descendant Gallaudet University Press.^[2] While recoil Gallaudet, she learned American Trip Language and was immersed send down deaf culture for the chief time.^[7] Briscoe wrote her precede novel, Sisters and Lovers, exhaustively working for Gallaudet; that interpretation focuses on the dating life story of three young black sisters.^[2][7] After the success of drift novel, she shifted to mode of operation full-time as a writer.^[7] Unite second book, Big Girls Don't Cry, was published in 1996, with a story about unadulterated young, middle-class black woman lowing the business world during excellence 1960s and 1970s.^[7] In 1996, Newsweek columnist Malcolm Jones Jr.

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

Works

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

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

• Can't spirit enough, New York: Doubleday, 2005, ISBN 9780385501620OCLC 57142679
• You Only Get Better: Celebrating Life Every Step of integrity Way, New York: Kimani Tap down, 2007 ISBN 9780373830596OCLC 85824128
• Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Murky 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 via Gallaudet University with the Prophet Kendall Award, "presented to neat deaf person in recognition disrespect his or her notable high quality in a professional field categorize related to deafness".^[9] Her ordinal book, A Long Way Cause the collapse of Home, was nominated for dignity NAACP Image Awards.^[10]

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