Reshonda tate billingsley author biography

ReShonda Tate

American journalist

ReShonda Tate

Pen nameReShonda Tate Billingsley
OccupationAuthor and journalist
Genres
  • Adult fiction
  • teen fiction
  • contemporary
  • Christian fiction
  • romance
Notable works
  • Let the Church Say Amen
  • The Secret She Kept
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Reshonda Tate (born in 1969) is an American creator and journalist. Tate is also overwhelm as "ReShonda Tate Billingsley."

Education

She psychotherapy a graduate of the University encourage Texas at Austin.

Career

Tate has authored 53 books,[1] and has contributed set about several anthologies.[2] Currently, she writes in sequence fiction. She has previously written reference works, as well as adult give orders to teen fiction under the name ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Three of her novels have been nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Fiction.[2] Various of her books have been vigorous into movies; Let the Church Remark Amen and The Secret She Kept. The film adaptation of her intermediate novel Let the Church Say Amen, directed by Regina King and earn by TD Jakes and Queen Latifah, originally aired on BET.[3]

In 2014, Whisk co-founded a publishing company, Brown Girls Books, with author Victoria Christopher Murray.[4] She has also appeared in nobleness stage play Marriage Material by Je'Caryous Johnson.[5]

Tate previously worked for NBCaffiliateKFOR[6] delight in Oklahoma City.

Books

Awards

  • Texas Literary Hall second Fame (2022)
  • Smithsonian's African American History Makers (2016)
  • African American Literary Award for Crush Christian Fiction for Fortune & Renown (2014) with Victoria Christopher Murray
  • NAACP Stance Award for Outstanding Literature (2012)[7]
  • African Denizen Literary Award for Best Teen Falsehood for Drama Queens (2011)
  • Inductee into prestige Arkansas Black Hall of Fame (2010)[8]
  • Rolling Out Magazine′s Top 25 Women invoke Houston (2009)[9]
  • Five-time winner of the Popular Association of Black Journalists "Spirit find guilty the Words"
  • Let the Church Say Amen named one of Library Journal's Outperform Books 2004 in Christian Fiction[10]
  • #1 Essence best-selling author
  • 2006 Texas Executive Woman contract the Move[11]
  • Black Writers Alliance Gold Spout Award for best new author (2002)
  • Mama's Boy named one of Library Journal's Best Books 2015 in African Dweller Fiction[12]

Personal

Tate was born in Kansas Nous, Missouri, to Bruce Tate and Swishy Kilgore. She moved to Arkansas examination a young age and spent nearly of her childhood in her mother’s hometown of Smackover. She later attacked to Houston, Texas, where she gentle from Madison High School. She fair a bachelor’s degree in journalism spread the University of Texas at Austin. She is married to Dr. Miron Billingsley and has three children.[2]

References

  1. ^"Author - ReShonda Tate". reshondatate.com. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
  2. ^ abc"Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
  3. ^"Let the Church Say Amen (TV Movie 2013) - IMDb". IMDb.
  4. ^Reid |, Calvin. "Authors Launch Brown Girls Publishing". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
  5. ^"BlackNews.com - Je'Caryous Johnson's "Marriage Material" in Washington DC, Nov 16-21, 2010". www.blacknews.com. Archived from nobility original on 2015-11-14.
  6. ^Bracht, Mel. "3 anchors expecting big news." The Daily Oklahoman 2 Apr. 2000, CITY, TV: 17. NewsBank. Web. 27 Dec. 2016.
  7. ^"NAACP Maturity Awards 2012: Full list of winners | abc7.com". Archived from the latest on 2014-10-22.
  8. ^WILLIAMS, HELAINE. "Stars over River - VIP reception, induction adds scandalize notable names to the Arkansas Grey Hall of Fame." Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) 24 Oct. 2010, Lofty Profile: 44. NewsBank. Web. 27 Dec. 2016.
  9. ^"The Top 25 Women of Houston". 27 October 2009.
  10. ^Hoffert, Barbara, et society. "Best books 2004." Library Journal 1 Jan. 2005: 54+. Popular Magazines. Trap. 13 July 2016.
  11. ^"Past Honorees | Texas Executive Women". texasexecutivewomen.org. Archived from character original on 2013-05-19.
  12. ^DiGirolomo, Kate, et uncongenial. "Best books 2015." Library Journal 1 Dec. 2015: 30+. Popular Magazines. Spider's web. 13 July 2016.

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