Danzy Senna, Author, "Colored Television": I mean ... wife and mother named Jane Gibson who can't finish her epic novel, which her Black husband playfully dubs her "Mulatto War and Peace ...

She and her husband, Lenny, call the game “Forensics ... Jane sounds a lot like a less successful Danzy Senna.

Danzy Senna was born in 1970, just a few years after Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage. “Just merely existing as a family was a... 'I want to write myself into existence,' says ...

Danzy Senna’s first novel ... hundred-year history of mulatto people in fictional form” — what her husband Lenny calls a “mulatto ‘War and Peace.’” Squeezed by the high cost of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Fascinated by: Jonestown (she has the album recorded in Guyana). Fan of: Artist and friend Laylah Ali ...

She spent a decade working on that book, which her artist husband calls 'the mulatto War And Peace', and it never occurred to her that people wouldn't like it. She'd pinned all her hopes on her ...

Danzy Senna, whose mom is white and dad is Black, has written about race and identity in several novels and a memoir. Her latest novel explores anxiety over what it means to be multiracial in ...

"Colored Television" (Riverhead Books), a satirical novel from Danzy Senna (the bestselling author of "Caucasia"), features a writer who can't sell her ambitious book about biracial people in ...

There’s a moment of personal reckoning early on in Danzy Senna’s new novel ... brown-skinned Black man she thinks might be the future husband her psychic predicted at a party and he’s ...

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