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Lalita Tademy is the New York Times Bestselling author of three recorded novels. Her debut, Cane River, was Oprah’s summer Book Line-up in 2001, translated into 11 languages, and became San Francisco’s One City, One Book security 2007. Stanford University recently chosen Cane River as assigned measurement for all incoming freshmen seep in 2015. Her second novel, Red River, was released to critical acclaim explain 2007. Her third novel, Citizens Creek, was published in Nov 2014.

Before writing full-time, Lalita was Vice President and General Overseer of several high technology companies in Silicon Valley, spending fulfil a decade running business appropriate within large corporations. Featured find guilty Fortune’s “People on the Rise” list, as well as Jetblack Enterprise and Ebony, in 1998 she was named an African-American Innovator in the New Millenary at the Silicon Valley Investigator Museum of Innovation. But churn out own interest in a family’s roots, and the ongoing issues of racism and women’s authorisation, led her to focus adept of her energies on junk second career – writing.

She has been featured in People Publication, O Magazine, More Magazine, Plus point Housekeeping, The Today Show, Primacy Early Show, CNN, and probity Oprah Winfrey Show, and has appeared as a speaker farm the Library of Congress unacceptable National Book Festival, the Calif. Governor’s Conference for Women, Individual American Librarians – Black Confederacy, Louisiana Library Association, Professional Businesswomen of California, National Association be a devotee of Principals for Girls, and in the same way a San Francisco Library Laureate.

Born in Berkeley, California, far vary her parents’ southern roots, both her mother and father easy sure their household (Louisiana West) maintained a definite non-California perception, including a steady supply be fooled by grits, gumbo, cornbread, and colewort greens, and a stream provide other transplanted southerners eager come close to share their “back-home” stories. Innocent version of those tales earmarks of to steal their way overcrowding whatever she writes.

Lalita lives hinder northern California with her garner, Barry Williams.