Malaika Adero Author

Malaika Adero, former VP and Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster, is the author of A Black Woman Did That: 42 Boundary-Breaking, Bar-Raising, World-Changing Women (Downtown Bookworks/S&S) and Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of This Century's African American Migrations (New Press), and coauthor of The Mother of Black Hollywoodwith Jenifer Lewis (Amistad) and Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (Doubleday). At her company, Adero's Literary Tribe, she works with individuals and corporations as an editor and writer; see https: