Great Conversations
11:30 a.m. - Book Signing
Happy Hollow Club
1701 S. 105th St.
Omaha, NE 68124
You are invited to College of Saint Mary’s annual gathering of readers and people who like good books. Featured author Victoria Christopher Murray will discuss “Harlem Rhapsody”
She found the literary voices that would inspire the world — the extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance, written by Victoria Christopher Murray. In 1919, a high school teacher from Washington, D.C arrives in Harlem excited to realize her lifelong dream. Jessie Redmon Fauset has been named the literary editor of The Crisis. The first Black woman to hold this position at a preeminent Negro magazine, Jessie is poised to achieve literary greatness. But she holds a secret that jeopardizes it all.
Victoria Christopher Murray is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of more than 30 novels, including the New York Times Instant Best Sellers, The Personal Librarian, The First Ladies and the forthcoming Pair of Aces. All three novels, Victoria co-wrote with Marie Benedict.
A native New Yorker, she spent ten years in Corporate America before she tested her entrepreneurial spirit. She opened a Financial Services Agency for Aegon, USA where she managed the number one division for nine consecutive years. However, Victoria always dreamed of writing and in 1997, she pursued her dream.
Over her career, Victoria has received numerous awards including the Phyllis Wheatley Trailblazer Award, the Delta Sigma Theta Osceola Award for Excellence in the Arts, Go On Girl Book Club Author of the Year, eleven African American Literary Awards and five NAACP Image Award nominations. In 2016, she won the Image Award for Outstanding Literature for her social commentary novel, Stand Your Ground.
With almost three million books in print, Victoria is one of the country’s top African American contemporary authors.
