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Penny Mickelbury, a journalist-turned-novelist who thinks of herself as a playwright, was born in 1948 in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1970 she became the first African-American reporter at the Georgia Banner-Herald in Athens. A former reporter for the Washington Post, Ms. Mickelbury was a political reporter for the ABC-TV affiliate in Washington, D.C., and was co-founder and managing director of New York City's Alchemy: Theater of Change. Mickelbury’s novels include Keeping Secrets and Night Songs, featuring Washington DC detective Gianna Maglione, and four “Carole Ann Gibson” novels: One Must Wait, Where to Choose, The Step Between, and Paradise Interrupted .

From the guide to the Penny Mickelbury papers, 1997-2000, (University of Minnesota Libraries. Givens Collection of African-American Literature, Special Collections and Rare Books [scrbg])

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