{"id":46,"date":"2016-05-26T16:54:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T16:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2020-11-02T05:16:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T05:16:17","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-228\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/brooke-obie-gg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/brooke-obie-gg.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/brooke-obie-gg-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/brooke-obie-gg-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong><br \/>\nBrooke C. Obie, JD, MFA, is the international award-winning author of <em>Book of Addis: Cradled Embers<\/em>, the first in a 3-part series.\u00a0<em>Book of Addis<\/em> won the 2018 Accra International Book Festival Independent Writer&#8217;s Award, the 2017 Phillis Wheatley Book Award for First Fiction and the 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award for self-published fiction.\u00a0BOOK OF ADDIS has appeared in <em>Ebony<\/em>, NBCNews.com,\u00a0<em>The Los Angeles\u00a0Review of Books<\/em>, Teen Vogue, MarieClaire.com and more. Her thesis for The New School\u2019s MFA in Fiction program, which\u00a0became <em>Book of Addis<\/em>, was a finalist for the Fulbright Fellowship. She\u2019s attended writing workshops with\u00a0Columbia University in Paris, France in 2012 and the <em>Callaloo Journal of African Diaspora Arts &amp; Letters<\/em>\u00a0workshop at Oxford University in July 2016. In August 2019, Brooke was the La Maison Baldwin Summer Writer-in-Residence at James Baldwin&#8217;s last hometown, St. Paul de Vence, France. In October 2020, the pilot screenplay adaptation of BOOK OF ADDIS was named a quarterfinalist in the Screencraft TV Pilot Screenplay Competition. Brooke lives happily in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Read more of Brooke&#8217;s work on her website, www.brookeobie.com<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Brooke C. Obie, JD, MFA, is the international award-winning author of Book of Addis: Cradled Embers, the first in a 3-part series.\u00a0Book of Addis won the 2018 Accra International Book Festival Independent Writer&#8217;s Award, the 2017 Phillis Wheatley Book Award for First Fiction and the 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7nB7U-K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brookeobie.com\/bookofaddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}