Phyllis Alesia Perry

Phyllis Alesia Perry (born 1961, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an African-American journalist and author, who lives in the Southern United States.

Phyllis Alesia Perry is the daughter of Harmon Griggs Perry, the first African-American reporter to be hired by the Atlanta Journal. She grew up in Tuskegee, Alabama, and graduated with a degree in communications from the University of Alabama in 1982. Becoming a journalist, she was among a group of Alabama Journal reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize for investigating Alabama's high infant mortality rate.[1]

Perry's debut novel, Stigmata (1998), follows the journey of a young woman, Lizzie, pursuing the story behind a handmade quilt she has inherited on the death of her grandmother.[1] A Sunday in June (2004) is a prequel to Stigmata.[2][3]

Works
  • Stigmata, Hyperion, 1998
  • A Sunday in June, Hyperion, 2004

References
  1. Moore, Shirley Walker (2006). "Perry, Phyllis Alesia (1962-)". In Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu (ed.). Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 705–6. ISBN 0-313-33197-9.
  2. "A Sunday in June". Publishers Weekly. January 19, 2004. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
  3. "A Sunday in June". Kirkus Reviews. May 19, 2010. Retrieved August 30, 2023.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.