Celebrating and Honoring the Life of Best Selling Author - Bebe Moore Campbell

I was very saddened today to hear of the passing of best selling author BeBe Moore Campbell announced by Tavis Smiley on The Tom Joyner Show. Peace and Blessings to The Campbell Family and Friends.

Official BeBe Moore Campbell site: bebemoorecampbell.com

WashPost article: washingtonpost.com
NewYorkTimes article: nytimes.com
Philly.com article: philly.com
Tavis Smiley Interviews BeBe Moore Campbell: pbs.org/tavissmiley

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia:
Bebe Moore Campbell (February 18th, 1950- November 27th, 2006) was the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001." Her other works include the novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literature; her memoir, Sweet Summer, Growing Up With and Without My Dad; and her first nonfiction book, Successful Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage. Her essays, articles, and excerpts appear in many anthologies.

Ms. Campbell's interest in mental health was the catalyst for her first children's book, Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry, which was published in September 2003. This book won the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) Outstanding Literature Award for 2003. The book tells the story of how a little girl copes with being reared by her mentally ill mother. Ms. Campbell is a member of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and a founding member of NAMI-Inglewood. Her latest book, 72 Hour Hold, also deals with mental illness.

Ms. Campbell's first play, "Even with the Madness," debuted in New York in June 2003. This work revisited the theme of mental illness and the family.

As a journalist Ms. Campbell has written articles for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Essence, Ebony, Black Enterprise, as well as other publications. She is a regular commentator for Morning Edition a program on National Public Radio.

Ms. Campbell was born and reared in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in elementary education from the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Ellis Gordon Jr. She has a son and a daughter, actress Maia Campbell. She is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorported.