Delores Phillips is an American author

Author

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 who is known for her acclaimed debut novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

, The Darkest Child (Soho Press

Soho Press

Soho Press is a New York City-based publisher. Founded by Laura Hruska in 1986, the company's primary focus is literary fiction and international crime series, with the occasional memoir...

, 2005). Born in Georgia, Phillips explores the racial dynamics of the 1950s rural South in her book. She graduated from Cleveland State University

Cleveland State University

Cleveland State University is a public university located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It was established in 1964 when the state of Ohio assumed control of Fenn College, and it absorbed the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1969...

and currently works as a nurse in a facility for abused women and children in Cleveland. Her other work has appeared in Jean’s Journal, Black Times, and The Crisis.

Interviews

• Clutch Magazine

External Links

• http://www.sohopress.com/books/darkest_child.html
• http://www.amazon.com/Darkest-Child-Novel-Delores-Phillips/dp/product-description/1569473781