Background
Anita Richmond Bunkley was born in 1944 in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
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The Twisted Crown takes readers from the bustling streets of Boston at the height of the Abolitionist movement to the war-ravaged landscape of Reconstruction-era South Carolina. In 1867, Eva Phillips, who was born a slave yet lived in freedom, travels across the chaotic landscape of South Carolina in search of the mother who gave her away. During her journey, she is befriended by a black political activist promoting the rights of the newly freed slaves, a wealthy northern Carpetbagger, and a gutsy lady gambler who teaches Eva how to survive in the tumultuous Post-war environment. When the spirited young widow’s quest draws her into a dangerous web of theft, lies, and murder, she becomes the target of a long-awaited confrontation that forces her into a fight for her life.
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Three novellas by African-American women writers explore the emotional and spiritual connections between sisters, bonds that are tested by the men in their lives and the drive to make it in the world.
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Anita Richmond Bunkley was born in 1944 in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Her debut book, Emily, the Yellow Rose, is a historical novel based on the life of a Texas woman about whom the song The Yellow Rose of Texas was written. Black Gold, another historical novel, is also set in Texas. The story focuses on the struggles of African Americans to make a living there in the difficult economic climate of the early 1900s.
In her contemporary novels Bunkley often tackles serious and timely themes, such as reparation for historically exploited black artisans in Starlight Passage, interracial adoption in Relative Interest, and corporate environmental abuse of African American neighborhoods in Balancing Act, which a Publishers Weekly reviewer described as a "sharp and absorbing page-turner."
In addition to her acclaimed fiction, which earned her a career achievement award in African American fiction from Romantic Times Online in 2007, Bunkley has written the motivational book Steppin' out with Attitude: Sister, Sell Your Dream. As she explains in the book, she received thirty-two rejections before a publisher agreed to take her first book. Perseverance, hard work, self-promotion, and networking, she writes, were important strategies to achieving success. She encourages her readers to practice these habits to become more proactive about their lives.
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Anita is married and has two daughters.