Listen in as I chat with ReShonda Tate, the author of dozens of novels including The Queen of Sugar Hill, ReShonda's first historical novel. It's listed in the Film category on Art In Fiction.
View the Video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aIofW073t_U
Highlights include:
- Why write a novel about Hattie McDaniel, famous for playing Mammy in Gone with the Wind and being the first Black person to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1939
- Hattie's famous line about how she'd rather play a maid than be a maid.
- The novel as a story about a career woman before her time
- Hattie's troubled love life
- Hattie's relationship with Clark Gable
- Researching The Queen of Sugar Hill
- Fact vs. fiction - an example of a fictionalized event in The Queen of Sugar Hill
- Hattie's activism during and after the war and her successful challenge of the restrictive covenant that kept the Sugar Hill neighborhood for "whites only" that led to a landmark Supreme Court case
- Theme of The Queen of Sugar Hill
- Reading from The Queen of Sugar Hill
- ReShonda's focus on writing historical fiction
- What ReShonda is working on now
Press Play now & be sure to check out The Queen of Sugar Hill on Art In Fiction: https://www.artinfiction.com/novels?q=reshonda+tate
ReShonda Tate's Website: https://www.reshondatate.com
Music Credit
Paganology, performed by The Paul Plimley Trio; composed by Gregg Simpson
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