Nikki Turner (author)

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Nikki Turner
Born Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
OccupationWriter, novelist
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater North Carolina Central University
Genre Urban fiction
Website
web.archive.org/web/20130622121954/http://nikkiturner.com [archived]

Nikki Turner is an American author of urban fiction, dubbed by Trendsetter Magazine as the "Queen of Hip Hop Lit". [1] Her first two books, A Hustler's Wife and A Project Chick have sold about 150,000 copies as of 2005. [2]

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Turner was born in Richmond, Virginia and has received a degree from North Carolina Central University. [3] She formerly worked as a travel agent, eventually quitting to become a full-time novelist. [4] Turner has stated that she began writing urban fiction as a way of showing the "dark side" of the street life beyond the "glitz and the glamor". [3]

Bibliography

Girls from Da Hood

Hustler's Wife series

  1. A Hustler's Wife (2002)
  2. Forever a Hustler's Wife: A Novel (2008) [13]
  3. Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife: A Novel (2011) [14] [15] [16]

Unique

Note: This series was released as an e-serial from 2012 to 2014

  1. Unique (2014)
  2. Unique II: Betrayal (2012)
  3. Unique III: Revenge (2012)
  4. Unique IV: Love & Lies (2013)
  5. Unique V: Secrets Revealed (2014)
  • Always Unique (2014, collects stories I - V)

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