Bebe Moore Campbell

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Bebe Moore Campbell (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)

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As a child, Bebe Moore Campbell spent her school years in Philadelphia with her mother and her summers in North Carolina with her father. She writes of this divided life in Sweet Summer: Growing Up with and Without My Dad, drawing sharp contrasts between the two worlds. She credits both parents with shaping her into a writer.

Her mother, an avid storyteller, designated Sundays as church day and library day. Having learned the value of stories and writing, Campbell composed stories for her father, cliffhangers designed to elicit his immediate...

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• Bebe Moore Campbell (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
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• Bebe Moore Campbell (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

See Also:

• Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine (African American Literature)
• Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine (American Fiction)
• Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine (Literary Annual Reviews)
• Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine (Character Profiles)
• Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine (Identities and Issues)
• Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine (Magill Book Reviews)
• African American Long Fiction (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)