Mary Monroe Book Signing August 31, 2009

The Chicago Sun-Times describes New York Times and #1 Essence bestselling author Mary Monroe, as a “remarkable talent,” known for insightful, entertaining and poignant stories spun around the complicated dynamics between friends, lovers and family, and the atrocious situations people, being people, can often create. The daughter of sharecroppers and the first in her family to graduate high school, Alabama-born Monroe is the author of God Don’t Like Ugly, which received the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and which now has over a quarter of a million copies in print.