Pearl Cleage

Pearl Cleage is the author of What Looks Like Crazy on an
Ordinary Day . . . , an Oprah’s Book Club selection; Some
Things I Never Thought I’d Do, a Good Morning America Read
This! book club pick; and Babylon Sisters. She is also the
author of two works of nonfiction: Mad at Miles: A Black
Woman’s Guide to Truth and Deals with the Devil and Other
Reasons to Riot; as well as the poem We Speak Your Names.
Also an accomplished dramatist, her plays include Flyin’
West and Blues for an Alabama Sky. Cleage lives in Atlanta
with her husband, Zaron W. Burnett Jr.