Bernice L. McFadden (born September 26, 1965) is an American novelist. She has also written humorous erotica under the pseudonym Geneva Holliday.[1] Author of fifteen novels, she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University in New Orleans.
In April 2005 McFadden was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in New Hampshire.[citation needed] She received an El Gouna Writers’ Residency in Egypt in June 2011.[2] In April 2013 she was Serenbe Artist-in-Residence in Georgia.[3]
In 2022, Bernice McFadden created and copyrighted the word: Angelcestor n A divine ancestor who serves as guide and protector of the living. (U.S. Serial Number: 97288112)
Mark: ANGELCESTOR
Works
Bernice L. McFadden
Sugar: A Novel. Dutton Publishers. 2000, ISBN 9780452282209, OCLC 881425318 (UK: Random House UK, Vintage. ISBN 9781784877316
The Warmest December. Dutton Publishers. 2001, ISBN 9780525945642, OCLC 44391576
This Bitter Earth. Dutton Publishers. 2002, ISBN 9780452283817
Loving Donovan. Dutton Publishers. 2003, ISBN 9780525947066, OCLC 966238817
Camilla's Roses. Dutton Publishers. 2004, ISBN 9780786267927
Nowhere is a Place. Dutton Publishers. 2006, ISBN 9780525948759
Glorious. Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-936070-78-7, OCLC 456177974[4]
Gathering of Waters. New York: Akashic Books, 2012 ISBN 978-1-61775-031-1 OCLC 777863209[5]
"My Seat at the Table." Longreads, August 5, 2021(USA)
"Love in the Time of King Cake", Oldster Magazine, November 15, 2021
Where to start with Toni Morrison, The Guardian, July 21, 2022
Add "Angelcestor" to your Vocabulary Oldster Magazine, June 19, 2023
Awards, Honors, Recognitions, Mentions
2023 Librarians recommend their favorite books of all time https://www.libbylife.com/2023-07-24-librarians-recommend-their-favorite-books-of-all-time (Sugar)
2023 Beach Reads to Keep Arkansas on Your Mind https://onlyinark.com/homegrown/beach-reads-to-keep-arkansas-on-your-mind/ (Sugar)
2023 Opinion: A map of 1,001 novels to show us where to find the real America https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-05-28/american-novels-1001-literary-geography-map-states (Sugar)
2022 Black Book Canon https://medium.com/ballasts-for-the-mind/the-100-best-books-by-black-authors-4f91042b8a65 (Sugar, Loving Donovan)
2022 Born Free: A Renaissance Reading List https://www.nypl.org/blog/2022/08/08/born-free-renaissance-reading-list (Sugar)
2022 Battle Creek Reads (The Book of Harlan)
2021: Longreads Best of 2021 (My Seat at the Table)
2021: Richard and Judy Book Club pick (Sugar)
2020: Mary Cadden and others, USA Today, "100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read, from Abi Daré to Zora Neale Hurston"[7]
2019: Essence Magazine "Best Books of the Decade" (Gathering of Waters)[8]