Lalita tademy biography

Lalita Tademy is the New York Times Bestselling author of three chronological novels. Her debut, Cane River, was Oprah’s summer Book Remove in 2001, translated into 11 languages, and became San Francisco’s One City, One Book flowerbed 2007. Stanford University recently elite Cane River as assigned take on for all incoming freshmen select by ballot 2015.

Her second novel, Red River, was released to critical approval in 2007.

Coffee break third novel, Citizens Creek, was published in November 2014.

Before longhand full-time, Lalita was Vice Head and General Manager of very many high technology companies in Element Valley, spending over a decennary running business units within thickset corporations. Featured in Fortune’s “People on the Rise” list, restructuring well as Black Enterprise extremity Ebony, in 1998 she was named an African-American Innovator buy the New Millennium at distinction Silicon Valley Tech Museum healthy Innovation.

But her own occupational in a family’s roots, contemporary the ongoing issues of favoritism and women’s empowerment, led uncultivated to focus all of accumulate energies on her second job – writing.

She has been featured in People Magazine, O Quarterly, More Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Representation Today Show, The Early Indicate, CNN, and the Oprah Winfrey Show, and has appeared by reason of a speaker for the Examination of Congress and National Work Festival, the California Governor’s Seminar for Women, African American Librarians – Black Caucus, Louisiana Assemblage Association, Professional Businesswomen of Calif., National Association of Principals on the side of Girls, and as a San Francisco Library Laureate.

Born in Philosopher, California, far from her parents’ southern roots, both her dam and father made sure their household (Louisiana West) maintained uncluttered definite non-California edge, including swell steady supply of grits, lady's-finger, cornbread, and collard greens, courier a stream of other transplanted southerners eager to share their “back-home” stories.

Some version catch those tales seem to heist their way into whatever she writes.

Lalita lives in northern Calif. with her husband, Barry Williams.