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ReShonda Tate

Biography

ReShonda Tate

As a national bestselling author and award-winning journalist, ReShonda Tate has the credentials, and the passion, to bring stories to life.  A highly sought-after motivational speaker/poet, ReShonda is a three-time nominee and previous winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature. She has received a plethora of distinguished awards and honors for her journalism, fiction and poetry writing skills, including an induction into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame and the Texas Literary Hall of Fame. Two of her novels have been made into television movies. 

ReShonda Tate

Books by ReShonda Tate

The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
by ReShonda Tate - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

It was supposed to be the highlight of her career, the pinnacle for which she’d worked all her life. And as Hattie McDaniel took the stage in 1940 to claim an honor that would make her the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, she tearfully took her place in history. Between personal triumphs and tragedies, heartbreaking losses and severe setbacks, this historic night of winning best supporting actress for her role as the sassy Mammy in the controversial movie Gone with the Wind was going to be life-changing. Or so she thought. Months after winning the award, not only did the Oscar curse set in where Hattie couldn’t find work, but she found herself thrust in the middle of two worlds --- Black and White --- and not being welcomed in either.