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Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951) is an American novelist. Her work centers around the experiences of Black women in the United States. Early life McMillan was born in Port Huron, Michigan. She received a B.A. degree in journalism in 1977 from the University of California, Berkeley. She attended the Master of Fine Arts program in film at Columbia University. Career McMillan's first book, Mama, was published in 1987. Unsatisfied with her publisher's limited promotion of Mama, McMillan promoted her own debut novel by writing to thousands of booksellers, particularly African-American bookstores, and the book soon sold out of its initial first hardcover printing of 5,000 copies.McMillan achieved national attention in 1992 with her third novel, Waiting to Exhale. At the time, it was the second largest paperback book deal in publishing history. The book remained on The New York Times bestseller list for many months and by 1995 it had sold more than three million copies. The novel contributed to a shift in Black popular cultural consciousness and the visibility of a female Black middle-class identity in popular culture. McMillan was credited with having introduced the interior world of Black women professionals in their thirties who are successful, alone, available, and unhappy. In 1995, the novel was adapted into a film of the same title, directed by Forest Whitaker and starring Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, and Lela Rochon. In 1998, another of McMillan's novels, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, was adapted into a film by the same name starring Angela Bassett and Taye Diggs. McMillan's novel Disappearing Acts was subsequently produced as a direct-to-cable feature by the same name in 2000, starring Wesley Snipes and Sanaa Lathan and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. In 2014, Lifetime brought McMillan's A Day Late and a Dollar Short to television audiences, starring Whoopi Goldberg and an ensemble cast featuring Ving Rhames, Tichina Arnold, Mekhi Phifer, Anika Noni Rose, and Kimberly Elise. McMillan also wrote The Interruption of Everything (2006) and Getting to Happy (2010), the sequel to Waiting to Exhale. Personal life McMillan married Jonathan Plummer in 1998, who came out as gay during their marriage. In March 2005, she filed for divorce.On July 13, 2012, she sold her 7,000 square feet home in Danville, California, before moving to Los Angeles, California. McMillan has one child, a son, Solomon. Works Mama. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1987. ISBN 978-0-547-52404-7. Disappearing Acts. Penguin Group US. 1989. ISBN 978-1-101-65772-0. (Editor) Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. Penguin Books. October 1990. ISBN 978-0140116977. Waiting to Exhale. Viking. May 1992. ISBN 978-0-670-83980-3. Waiting to Exhale played an instrumental part in promoting a more honest, reflective representation of contemporary black womanhood and played an instrumental role in creating a dialogue in R&B music that was relatable to black women. Her book discussed the everyday needs as well as the sexual desires and pleasures of women that had largely been missing to that point. Daphne A. Brooks argues in her piece "Its not right but its okay" that McMillan's work informed and influenced the woman-centered R&B movement that has become very popular today. In today's R&B, artists such as SZA, Summer Walker, Jazmine Sullivan, among many others, articulate the experiences of black women, a trend that was jumpstarted by the work of McMillan and the R&B artists who innovated the genre. How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Viking. 1996. ISBN 978-0451209146. A Day Late and a Dollar Short. Penguin Group US. 2001. ISBN 978-1-101-20938-7. It's OK if You're Clueless: and 23 More Tips for the College Bound. Viking Adult. March 2006. ISBN 978-1419397332. The Interruption of Everything. Penguin Group US. May 2006. ISBN 978-1-101-20981-3. Getting to Happy. Penguin Group US. 2010. ISBN 978-1-101-44294-4. Who Asked You? Viking, September 2013. ISBN 978-0670-78569-8 I Almost Forgot About You. Crown, New York. 2016. ISBN 978-1101-9025-78. It's Not All Downhill From Here. Ballantine Books. 2020. ISBN 978-1984-8237-48.References Sources Nishikawa, Kinohi. "Romance Novel." Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey Jr. (eds), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. pp. 1411–15.External links Official Web Site Interview with Terry McMillan on the Tavis Smiley Show. Terry McMillan at IMDb Terry McMillan at the African American Literature Book Club. Discover the Terry Mcmillan popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Terry Mcmillan books.
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Red Hats
Damon WayansMeet Alma, a mother and wife, who’s brutally honest and bitterdisappointment and heartbreak have left the once vital and joyful woman so cynical and selfprotecting that she has for...
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The Stolen Daughter
ReShonda Tate BillingsleyAwardwinning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers a poignant, pageturning novel about the powerand fragilityof family, personal identity, and the choices we are called on to m...
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Getting to Happy
Terry McMillan#1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan's exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale.Waiting to Exhale was more than just a best...
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Disappearing Acts
Terry McMillanFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan comes an honest look at a modern romance, from love at first sight to painful reality to working toward a happy ending....F...
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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke EmeziA Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a Best Romance of 2022 by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vulture, Harper’s Bazaar...
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Terry McMillanHow Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her ow...
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Intermission
Phyllis R. DixonAn insightful and dramatic novel of women’s friendship, feuds, and fame as a 1990s pop music group, reminiscent of Destiny’s Child, reunites for a second shot at megasuccess and mu...
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Let That Be the Reason
Vickie M. StringerFrom literary icon and Essence bestselling author of Imagine This and Dirty Red comes forth the classic urban novel that launched Vickie Stringer's wildly successful career Let Th...
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I Almost Forgot About You
Terry McMillanNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up...
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Waiting to Exhale
Terry McMillanThe critically acclaimed novel about four women who learn how to carry on while leaning on each other from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Bac...
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Good Morning, Love
Ashley M ColemanFor fans of My (Not So) Perfect Life and Jasmine Guillory’s While We Were Dating, a disarmingly fun debut novel follows Carlisa Henton as her life comes undone after a chance meeti...
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Summary of I Almost Forgot About You
InstareadSummary of I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan | Includes Analysis Preview: I Almost Forgot About You, a novel by Terry McMillan, follows protagonist Georgia ...
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The Interruption of Everything
Terry McMillanFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan comes a “frank, noholdsbarred, humorous look at AfricanAmerican midlife” (The Seattle Times).“Being a lifetime wife and mot...
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ImPerfectly Happy
Sharina HarrisWhen four college friends formed the Brown Sugarettes Mastermind Group, they had very different goalsbut matched each other in ambition. Yet ten years later they can’t help wonderi...
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People Person
Candice Carty-WilliamsThe author of the “brazenly hilarious, tellitlikeitis first novel” (Oprah Daily) Queenie returns with another witty and insightful “treat” (Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession) ...
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A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Terry McMillan“Without question, this is McMillan’s best. A glorious novel....A moving tapestry of familial love and redemption.”The Washington PostWith her hallmark exuberance and a cast of cha...
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Later, at the Bar
Rebecca BarryLucy's Tavern is the best kind of smalltown bar. It has a good jukebox, a bartender with a generous pour, and it's always open, even in terrible weather. In the raw and beautiful c...