Lalita Tademy (born December 26, 1948) is an American novelist, speaker, businesswoman, and literary critic who is regarded as one of the central figures in African feminism of African diaspora.

2012年11月7日 · Author and corporate executive Lalita Tademy was born in 1948 in Berkeley, California to Nathan Green Tademy, Jr. and Willie Dee Billes. She was the youngest of four siblings, including two older sisters, Theodorsia and Joan, and an older brother, Lee.

Now with her evocative, luminous style and painstaking research, Lalita Tademy takes her family's story even further, back to a little-chronicled, deliberately-forgotten time...and the struggle of three extraordinary generations of African-American men to forge brutal injustice and shattered promise into a limitless future for their children.

Lalita Tademy is the New York Times Bestselling author of three historical novels. Her debut, Cane River , was Oprah’s summer Book Pick in 2001, translated into 11 languages, and became San Francisco’s One City, One Book in 2007.

2009年10月15日 · Tademy wove these historical materials into a novel that blends fact and fiction and tells the story of her maternal Louisiana ancestors over the turbulent years from 1834 to 1936, from slavery to freedom to Reconstruction to Jim Crow.

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Tademy tells the story of her ancestor, Sam Tademy, one of the few male members who voted that infamous day and actually survived the massacre. A contributor to Publishers Weekly labeled the novel "another American epic."

2001年4月17日 · Lalita Tademy's riveting family saga chronicles four generations of women born into slavery along the Cane River in Louisiana.

2015年2月6日 · In her latest novel, Citizens Creek, Lalita Tademy examines an often overlooked part of our history: the fact that many people of color were held in bondage by Native American tribes before the Civil War. Her story is set in the sweet spot of a turbulent period in American history between Native Americans, African Americans, and Europeans.

2001年1月1日 · Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned by a Creole family, Lalita Tademy chronicles four generations of strong, determined black women as they battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms.