It’s also the culmination of a long personal and professional journey for L.A. native Rachel Howzell Hall. AdvertisementIt wasn’t long before Hall started getting to know the world of writers and seeing where she might fit in. (Consider the since-discredited “memoir” by a white woman purporting to be a half-Native member of the Bloods gang.) Hall’s novels were about, for example, a well-to-do Black woman accused of murdering her ex-husband, or a reporter recovering from cancer surgery while tracking serial killers. Advertisement“In an English lit class, I suggested that the Dark Lady in one of Shakespeare’s sonnets could have been a Black woman,” she recalls.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 14, 2020 14:32 UTC