Best Selling Author

Connie Briscoe is the author of seven novels, one novella and one nonfiction book. Her work has appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, USA Today, Publishers Weekly and many other publications. Her first novel, Sisters and Lovers, was published in 1994 and went on to sell more than 600,000 copies. Her nonfiction title, Jewels, is a photo-essay book featuring luminaries such as actresses Ruby Dee and S. Epatha Merkerson (of Law and Order), author Marita Golden, and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Nikki Giovanni wrote an original poem for Jewels. In 2012, Connie Briscoe began to study jewelry design.