About the Author
“When I write a novel, I’m not telling you how to think, I’m asking you how you think and encouraging you to think about a question in new ways.”
-Barbara Kingsolver
Charlene A. Porter, a graduate of Howard University’s School of Communications, began her writing career when she was recommended by Alex Haley, author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Roots to write the biography of Georgetown University’s 29th president Patrick Healy. During her undergraduate education, she interned with Harcourt, Brace and Janovich.
Porter began her journalism career as staff writer and editor for the National Association of Broadcasters. She is also the screenwriter of two award-winning NBC original docu-dramas, “The Trials and Triumphs of Benjamin Banneker” and “The Trials and Triumphs of Frederick Douglass.” Porter later wrote an NAACP Image Award speech for Lou Gossett, and authored several magazine articles.
Porter also studied film at the American Film Institute, UCLA, and the University of Southern California, and under the tutelage of industry stalwarts John Truby, Robert McKee, and Linda Seger. She later became a high school English teacher in Los Angeles, where she grew to become the writer she is.
