About The Author
Novelist Bebe Moore Campbell is the author of three
New York Times bestsellers, Brothers and Sisters, Singing
in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me,
which was also a LA Times "Best Book of 2001." Her other
works include the novel, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine,
which was a New York Times notable book of the year and
the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literature, her
memoir, Sweet Summer, Growing Up With and
Without My Dad, and her first nonfiction book, Successful
Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage.
Her essays, articles and excerpts appear in many anthologies.
Ms. Campbell's interest in mental health was the catalyst
for her first children's book, Sometimes My Mommy
Gets Angry, which was published in September 2003.
This book won the National Alliance for the Mentally
Ill (NAMI) Outstanding Literature Award for 2003. The
book tells the story of how a little girl copes with
being reared by her mentally ill mother. Ms. Campbell
is a member of the National Alliance for the Mentally
Ill and a founding member of NAMI-Inglewood.
Ms. Campbell's first play, "Even with the Madness,"
debuted in New York in June 2003. This work revisited
the theme of mental illness and the family.
As a journalist Ms. Campbell has written articles for
"The New York Times Magazine," "The Washington Post,"
"The Los Angeles Times," "Essence," "Ebony," "Black Enterprise,"
as well as other publications. She is a regular commentator
for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition."
Ms. Campbell was born and reared in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in elementary
education from the University of Pittsburgh. She lives
in Los Angeles with her husband, Ellis Gordon Jr. She
has a son and a daughter.
