Their second book, written as DeBerry and Grant, was Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made, was an Essence Bestseller and won the Merit Award for Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, as well as the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the Blackboard Bestseller List/African American Booksellers Conference-Book Expo America.
•
She attended Fisk University and is a graduate of SUNY at Buffalo.
•
Far From the Tree was a New York Times Bestseller, and Better Than I Know Myself received two Open Book Awards, and was included on the Best African-American fiction of 2004 lists of both Borders and WaldenBooks.
•
BlackBoard 1998 Book of the Year Winners—Award presented at BookExpo, the Book and Author Breakfast, Sunday May 31, 1998, McCormack Place Convention Center, Chicago, IL(Tryin' was the largest selling hardcover work of African American fiction for 1997)
Virginia | West Virginia | Richmond, Virginia | University of Virginia | Ulysses S. Grant | Norfolk, Virginia | Alexandria, Virginia | Virginia Woolf | Cary Grant | Donna Summer | Winchester, Virginia | Williamsburg, Virginia | Amy Grant | Quantico, Virginia | Virginia Tech | Governor of Virginia | Charlottesville, Virginia | Lexington, Virginia | Fairfax, Virginia | Grant Morrison | Arlington, Virginia | McLean, Virginia | Hugh Grant | Grant | West Virginia University | Roanoke, Virginia | Virginia Military Institute | Army of Northern Virginia | Charleston, West Virginia | Virginia House of Delegates |