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ReShonda Tate
Pen nameReShonda Tate Billingsley
OccupationAuthor and journalist
Genre
  • Adult fiction
  • teen fiction
  • contemporary
  • Christian fiction
  • romance
Notable works
  • Let the Church Say Amen
  • The Secret She Kept
Website
reshondatate.com

ReShonda Tate (born 1969) is an American author and journalist. Tate is also known as "ReShonda Tate Billingsley."

Career

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.

Books

  • My Brother's Keeper (2003) ISBN  978-0743477130
  • Four Degrees of Heat (anthology) (2004) Excerpt: "Rebound" ISBN  978-0743491457
  • Let the Church Say Amen (2004) ISBN  978-1476708874
  • Help! I've Turned Into My Mother (2005) ISBN  978-1593090500
  • I Know I've Been Changed (2006) ISBN  978-1416511984
  • Have A Little Faith (anthology) (2006) Excerpt: "Faith Will Overcome" ISBN  978-1416516767
  • Nothing But Drama (2006) ISBN  978-1416525608
  • Everybody Say Amen (2007) ISBN  978-1416521655
  • With Friends Like These (2007) ISBN  978-1416525622
  • Blessing in Disguise (2007) ISBN  978-1416525615
  • The Pastor's Wife (2007) ISBN  978-1416521662
  • Getting Even (2008) ISBN  978-1416558736
  • Fair-Weather Friends (2008) ISBN  978-1416558767
  • Can I Get a Witness? (2008) ISBN  978-1416521679
  • The Devil is a Lie (2009) ISBN  978-1416578048
  • Friends 'Til the End (2009) ISBN  978-1416558774
  • Caught up in the Drama (2010) ISBN  978-1439156865
  • Holy Rollers (2010) ISBN  978-1416578055
  • Drama Queens (2010) ISBN  978-1439156872
  • Body of Innocence (2011) ISBN  978-0615577449
  • A Good Man is Hard to Find (2011) ISBN  978-1439183502
  • Lady Jasmine / Sins of the Mother / Let the Church Say Amen / Everybody Say Amen (2011) ISBN  978-1451651096
  • Say Amen, Again (2011) ISBN  978-1416578062
  • Sinners & Saints (2012) ISBN  978-1451608151
  • Something to Say: poetry to motivate the mind, body and soul (2012) ASIN  B006WX2OMQ
  • The Secret She Kept (July 2012) ISBN  978-1451639650
  • Finding Amos (2012) ISBN  978-1451617047
  • Real As It Gets (2012) ISBN  978-0758289551
  • You Don't Know Me Like That (2013) ISBN  978-0758289537
  • Rumor Central (2013) ISBN  978-0758289513
  • Friends & Foes (2013) ISBN  978-1451608168
  • The Motherhood Diaries (2013) ISBN  978-1476711454
  • A Family Affair (2013) ISBN  978-1451639711
  • Fortune & Fame (2014) ISBN  978-1476747170
  • Truth or Dare (2014) ISBN  978-0758289575
  • Boy Trouble (2014) ISBN  978-0758289599
  • The Motherhood Diaries 2 (2014) ISBN  978-1625174529
  • What's Done in the Dark (2014) ISBN  978-1476714929
  • A Blessing & A Curse (2015) ISBN  978-1476748887
  • Eye Candy (2015) ISBN  978-0758289612
  • Pay Day (2015) ISBN  978-1625178329
  • Mama's Boy (2015) ISBN  978-1476714950
  • The Perfect Mistress (2016) ISBN  978-1476715049
  • It Should've Been Me (2016) ISBN  978-1944359515
  • Seeking Sarah (2017) ISBN  978-1501156625
  • The Book in Room 316 (2018) ISBN  978-1501156663
  • If Only For One Night (2018) ISBN  978-1944359720
  • The Stolen Daughter (2019) ISBN  978-1496724144
  • More to Life (2019) ISBN  978-1496724120
  • A Little Bit of Karma (2020) ISBN  978-1439183588
  • Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing (2022) ISBN  978-1496735393
  • The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel (2024) ISBN  978-0063291072

Awards

  • Texas Literary Hall of Fame (2022)
  • Smithsonian's African American History Makers (2016)
  • African American Literary Award for Best Christian Fiction for Fortune & Fame (2014) with Victoria Christopher Murray
  • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature 2012 [6]
  • African American Literary Award for Best Teen Fiction for Drama Queens (2011)
  • Inductee into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame (2010) [7]
  • Rolling Out Magazine′s Top 25 Women of Houston (2009) [8]
  • Five-time winner of the National Association of Black Journalists "Spirit in the Words"
  • Let the Church Say Amen named one of Library Journal's Best Books 2004 in Christian Fiction [9]
  • #1 Essence best-selling author
  • 2006 Texas Executive Woman on the Move [10]
  • Black Writers Alliance Gold Pen Award for best new author (2002)
  • Mama's Boy named one of Library Journal's Best Books 2015 in African American Fiction [11]

Personal

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Encyclopedia of Arkansas". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2024-02-05.
  2. ^ "Let the Church Say Amen (TV Movie 2013) - IMDb". IMDb.
  3. ^ Reid |, Calvin. "Authors Launch Brown Girls Publishing". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
  4. ^ "BlackNews.com - Je'Caryous Johnson's "Marriage Material" in Washington DC, November 16-21, 2010". www.blacknews.com. Archived from the original on 2015-11-14.
  5. ^ Bracht, Mel. "3 anchors expecting big news." The Daily Oklahoman 2 Apr. 2000, CITY, TV: 17. NewsBank. Web. 27 Dec. 2016.
  6. ^ "NAACP Image Awards 2012: Full list of winners | abc7.com". Archived from the original on 2014-10-22.
  7. ^ WILLIAMS, HELAINE. "Stars over Arkansas - VIP reception, induction adds six notable names to the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame." Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) 24 Oct. 2010, High Profile: 44. NewsBank. Web. 27 Dec. 2016.
  8. ^ "The Top 25 Women of Houston". 27 October 2009.
  9. ^ Hoffert, Barbara, et al. "Best books 2004." Library Journal 1 Jan. 2005: 54+. Popular Magazines. Web. 13 July 2016.
  10. ^ "Past Honorees | Texas Executive Women". texasexecutivewomen.org. Archived from the original on 2013-05-19.
  11. ^ DiGirolomo, Kate, et al. "Best books 2015." Library Journal 1 Dec. 2015: 30+. Popular Magazines. Web. 13 July 2016.

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