Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
“If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.”
“My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.”