Twice granted an American -Library Association for Black Caucus Literary Fiction Award, she is additionally a beneficiary of an Arts grant by the Pennsylvania Council. In novel, The Tumbling, was distributed William Morrow in 1996. Diane also won Arts Council for Pennsylvania for her 500-page draft. Leaving Cecil Street won high respects from The American- Library Association. Her art of writing have won various honors, that includes,BCALA in the year 20. She lives with her significant other Greg in Philadelphia. She has written for Philadelphia Magazine, Essence Magazine, and her short fiction has showed up in the compilation Blue Light Corner, and will likewise be incorporated into Rittenhouse Writers, another book by James Rahn, who established the Rittenhouse Writers’ Group. McKinney-Whetstone’s passion for writing started at 39 years, joining a writers group established by James Rahn University of Pennsylvania teacher. She was a speaker in the written work program there for a long time and a member of Creative Writing program workforce in Pennsylvania. She however, had an affinity for converting brochures into stories, turning news releases into dramas which prompted her being invited to teach fiction writing at Pen. She additionally served as an officer of public affairs for the USDA- Forest Service. Her first position out of school was serving as a press secretary for Philadelphia City Council president. She attended government funded schools in Philadelphia and later attended University of Pennsylvania where she majored in English, and graduated with a Bachelors degree. This books which include: -Tumbling, Leaving Cecil Street, Blue moving, Tempest Rising, and Lazaretto. But pain and cruelty cannot destroy a determination to survive – and a driving need to recapture a wounded lost thing called family.Diane McKinney-Whetston is a American writer of several books of an African decent.

A world rich in love, pride, and joy has been abruptly replaced with another – one coarser and more vicious, suffused with an air of jealousy, malignity, and brutal secrets that permeate every room of Mae’s unhappy home. Finch is lost at sea, Clarise suffers an apparent nervous collapse, and the girls – Shern, Bliss, and Victoria – are discharged into the foster care of politically connected cardsharp Mae and her beautiful, dark-spirited daughter Ramona. Finch’s lucrative catering business falls on hard times. Then everything changes with the suddenness of a violent summer thunderstorm. In 1965, Clarise, Finch, and their three adolescent daughters are living a privileged life as a black family in Philadelphia. If You Like Diane McKinney-Whetstone Books, You’ll Love…ĭiane McKinney-Whetstone Synopsis: Tempest Rising is a standalone novel by Diane McKinney-Whetstone.

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