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| Pen name | ReShonda Tate Billingsley |
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ReShonda Tate (born 1969) is an American author and journalist. Tate is also known as "ReShonda Tate Billingsley."
Tate has authored over 50 books, and has contributed to several anthologies. [1] Currently, she writes historical fiction. She previously wrote both adult and teen fiction under the name ReShonda Tate Billingsley, as well as nonfiction. Three of her novels have been nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Fiction. [1] Several of her books were made into movies; Let the Church Say Amen and The Secret She Kept. The film adaptation of her sophomore novel Let the Church Say Amen, directed by Regina King and produced by TD Jakes and Queen Latifah, originally aired on BET. [2] Her novel The Secret She Kept was made into a film that aired on TVOne.
Tate is also a screenwriter, with credits including "Christmas with my Ex," which aired on TV One.
In 2014, Tate co-founded a publishing company, Brown Girls Books, with author Victoria Christopher Murray. [3] She has also appeared in the stage play Marriage Material by Je'Caryous Johnson. [4]
Tate previously worked for NBC affiliate KFOR [5] in Oklahoma City and Fox affiliate KRIV in Houston, Texas as a television reporter/anchor.
Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Bruce Tate and Nancy Kilgore. She moved to Arkansas at a young age and was raised in her mother’s hometown of Smackover, as well as in other towns in the state. She later moved to Houston, Texas, where she graduated from Madison High School. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. She is married to Dr. Miron Billingsley and has three children. [1]
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