Phyllis Alesia Perry

American journalist (born 1961)

Journalist
author

NationalityAmericanAlma materUniversity of Alabama

Phyllis Alesia Perry (born 1961, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an African-American journalist and author, who lives in the Southern United States.

Phyllis Alesia Perry is the daughter of Harmon Griggs Perry, the first African-American reporter to be hired by the Atlanta Journal. She grew up in Tuskegee, Alabama, and graduated with a degree in communications from the University of Alabama in 1982. Becoming a journalist, she was among a group of Alabama Journal reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize for investigating Alabama's high infant mortality rate.^[1]

Perry's debut novel, Stigmata (1998), follows the journey of a young woman, Lizzie, pursuing the story behind a handmade quilt she has inherited on the death of her grandmother.^[1] A Sunday in June (2004) is a prequel to Stigmata.^[2]^[3]

Works

Stigmata, Hyperion, 1998
A Sunday in June, Hyperion, 2004

References

^ ^a ^b Moore, Shirley Walker (2006). "Perry, Phyllis Alesia (1962-)". In Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu (ed.). Writing African American Women: An Encyclopedia of Literature by and about Women of Color. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 705–6. ISBN 0-313-33197-9.
^ "A Sunday in June". Publishers Weekly. January 19, 2004. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
^ "A Sunday in June". Kirkus Reviews. May 19, 2010. Retrieved August 30, 2023.