The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Terry McMillan

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Terry McMillan

3/27/2002

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2002.038

Fiction writer Terry McMillan (1951 - ) was a popular author whose third novel, 'Waiting to Exhale,' sold nearly 4 million copies. McMillian also wrote 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back' and 'A Day Late and a Dollar Short,' and served as the editor of 'Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction.' McMillan was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 3/27/2002, in Danville, California. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 27m 41s

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Mcmillan, Terry

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Popular writer Terry McMillan was born on October 18, 1951, to Madeline Washington Tillman and Edward McMillan. She grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, a city about sixty miles northeast of Detroit. Her parents divorced when McMillan was thirteen and her father died three years later. McMillan's mother supported her family by working nights at a factory.As a child, McMillan had little interest in literature, but she discovered the joy of reading as a teenager, while working at a library shelving bo...