Born:(1951-10-18) October 18, 1951 (age 74), Port Huron, Michigan, U.S.
Genre:Fiction
Spouse:Jonathan Plummer (m. 1998; div. 2005)
Children:1 (son)
Education:University of California, Berkeley (BA)
Occupation:Writer, novelist
Nationality:American
Notable works:Waiting to Exhale (1992), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1996), A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2001), The Interruption of Everything (2006), Getting to Happy (2010)