R.I.P. Bebe Moore Campbell

[NotoriousTaz88]

i just heard she passed away...r.i.p. :(

[sexydeltagirl]

Really? damn that's messed up - she was a dope writer. I have her book What You Owe Me but never read it...

[YoHomeGirl]

R.I.P.

Why is everyone dying...?

[MZMOCHA314]

link?

[Mahogany Brown]

Damn RIP, Poor Maia

[tiana2576]

WOW...

RIP :( :( :( :(

she was a great writer...

[Sophie Fatale]

So..........no link yet, huh?

[tiana2576]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/16109343.htm


Author Bebe Moore Campbell dies at 56 in Los Angeles
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Bebe Moore Campbell, who penned several best-sellers including "Brothers and Sisters" and "What You Owe Me" as well as articles for The New York Times and The Washington Post, died Monday. She was 56.

Campbell died at home in Los Angeles from complications due to brain cancer, said publicist Linda Wharton Boyd. She was diagnosed with the disease in February.

"My wife was a phenomenal woman who did it her way," husband Ellis Gordon Jr. said in a statement. "She loved her family and her career as a writer.

Her books, most of which were fiction based on real-life stories, touched on racial and social divides while including the perspective of many ethnic groups.

One of her first novels, "Your Blues Ain't Like Mine," was published in 1992 and spanned a 40-year period dealing with prejudice in the United States. The book earned her an NAACP Image Award for literature.

She followed the book with "Brothers and Sisters," which focused on race relations in the corporate world after the 1992 Los Angeles riot.

Among her other novels were "Singing in the Comeback Choir," "What You Owe Me" and "72 Hour Hold," the latter dealing with a mother coping with her daughter's bipolar disorder.

She also wrote children's books, including "Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry" in 2003, which won the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Outstanding Literature Award. Another children's book, "I'm So Hungry," will be released next year.

Campbell, whose full name was Elizabeth Bebe Moore Campbell Gordon, was born in February 1950 in Philadelphia. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971.

She wrote for various publications, including The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Essence and Ebony.

Moore Campbell is survived by her husband; a son, Ellis Gordon III; a daughter, Maia Campbell; her mother, Doris Moore; and two grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements were pending.

[YoHomeGirl]

Where's the link....cuz I can't find this. Today is her daughter, Maia's 30th birthday.

[Sophie Fatale]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/16109343.htm
Thank you.

RIP

[IndiaBlu]

r.i.p

so sad...her books are great...

[TigolBitties83]

damn R.I.P.

life is but a dash

[MZMOCHA314]

Where's the link....cuz I can't find this. Today is her daughter, Maia's 30th birthday.

:sad: so sad. R.I.P.

[the_sheff]

Guess im out the black loop because i had no clue as to who that was.

[Malcolmxxx_23]

rest in peace

[Cococure]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/shared-blogs/palmbeach/swan/media/Campbell.jpg

RIP

[JackDRipper]

Rest In Peace

[Uff Da! NY]

R.I.P.

It does seem like everybody's dying lately... :sad:

[Dragonfly]

:ohmy: ARE YOU SERIOUS?
Oh my goodness! I'm gonna cry! Your Blues Ain't Like Mine is one of my favorite books!

RIP indeed.

[sexyDeirdre]

oh man!!!

She was a great writer!!!

RIP :sad:

[mansell]

never heard of her but RIP

damn i didnt know so many people in tlr read like that

[BedRoomI'z]

R.I.P.:sad:

Man, I loved Brothers & Sisters.

[Diggy_Dat_Niggy]

Guess im out the black loop because i had no clue as to who that was.

[stldymepiece]

:ohmy: ARE YOU SERIOUS?
Oh my goodness! I'm gonna cry! Your Blues Ain't Like Mine is one of my favorite books!
RIP indeed.
Mine too... and 72 Hour Hold was AWESOME!!! If I recall correctly, my book club just read it earlier this year and everybody loved it. I think I've read all of her adult books, though I can't really remember Singing In The Comeback choir. Wonderful writer. And she was pretty young too.... I only recently knew that Maia Campbell was her daughter.

RIP :sad:

[Cococure]

I only recently knew that Maia Campbell was her daughter.

RIP :sad:


yeah, i read something about them in a mag a while back