Joy Keys chats with Author, Playwright and Poet Pearl Cleage
This week on "Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys"-podcast chat with Author, Playwright and Poet Pearl Cleage about her newest play The Nacirema Society.

PHILADELPHIA, PA, November 23, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Interview with Author, Playwright and Poet Pearl Cleage
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DATE: Saturday November 27. 2010

TIME: 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. EST

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Pearl Cleage is an Atlanta based writer whose work has won commercial acceptance and critical praise in several genres. An award winning playwright whose Flyin' West was the most produced new play in the country in 1994, Pearl is also a best selling author whose first novel, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day, was an Oprah Book Club pick and spent nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Her subsequent novels have been consistant best sellers and perennial book club favorites. I Wish I Had A Red Dress, her second novel, won multiple book club awards in 2001. Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do, was a "Good Morning America!" book club pick in 2003, and Babylon Sisters made the ESSENCE Magazine best seller list in 2005.

Her novel, Baby Brother's Blues, was the first pick of the new ESSENCE Book Club and an NAACP Image Award winner for fiction in 2007. In the March 2007 issue of ESSENCE, Pearl had two books on the best seller list, Baby Brother's Blues and We Speak Your Names, a poetic celebration commissioned by Oprah Winfrey and co-authored with her husband, writer Zaron W. Burnett, Jr. The poem was also an NAACP Image Award nominee in 2007. Pearl was a popular columnist with The Atlanta Tribune for ten years and has contributed as a free lance writer to ESSENCE, Ms., Rap Pages, VIBE and Ebony.

Cleage's most recent book Till You Hear From Me (Ballantine/One World) returns readers to West End, the Atlanta neighborhood that has been the setting for my last four novels, and introduces Ida Dunbar, only daughter of the Reverend Horace A. Dunbar, Atlanta civil rights icon and self-described foot soldier for freedom. Unfortunately, Ida fears her father's criticism of the new administration may sidetrack her hopes of landing a job in the Obama White House. Returning home to try and talk to her father, Ida runs into Wes Harper, an old friend who has plans of his own for the Reverend and finds that going home is never as easy as it seems.

Cleage's play, A Song for Coretta, played to sold out audiences during its Atlanta premiere in February of 2007. Her most recent play is called, The Nacirema Society: Every year since Emancipation, the Nacirema Society of Montgomery, Alabama introduces six elegant African-American debutants to a world of wealth, privilege and social responsibility. This year, at its 100th anniversary, with young love brewing, old flames simmering and national media attention on hand. . . what would dare to go awry?

Website: http://www.pearlcleage.net
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