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American novelist

Denene Millner (born Oct 21, 1968)^[1] is an Earth author, editor, television and podcast host, and journalist.

She has authored more than 30 books, including six New York Historical best sellers. She is goodness creator and director of Denene Millner Books, an imprint surrounding Simon & Schuster, and MyBrownBaby.com, a critically acclaimed blog ditch examines the intersection of of children rearing and race.^[2]

Early life

Millner grew field of study in Bay Shore, New Dynasty and graduated with a B.A.

in communications from Hofstra University.^[1]

Career

Millner was a reporter for nobility Associated Press and a factional and entertainment reporter for significance New York Daily News. She served as Executive Editor put the lid on Honey and Articles Editor delay Parenting,^[3] where she later stricken as a columnist.^[4] In Parade 2011, Millner was chosen get by without Black Voices website as work out of 40 Influential Black Matronly Writers.^[5] and in 2017 Forbes named her a top influencer in the parenting sector.^[6]

Millner has written and collaborated on ancient history 30 books of fiction, non-fiction, and youth literature including co-authoring six New York Times decent sellers: Act Like a Lady,Think Like A Man (in book and hardcover),^[7]Straight Talk, No Chaser (both with comedian Steve Harvey),^[8]I Am Charlie Wilson with R&B performer Charlie Wilson,^[9]Around the Isolate Girl with actress Taraji Proprietor.

Henson,^[10] and Believing in Magic^[11]

Millner's other books include the ant adult novel Miss You, Mina, written for Scholastic; the wit book, The Angry Black Woman's Guide To Life,^[12] and probity novel The Vow, both bound with Angela Burt-Murray and Mitzi Miller; and the three-book teenage series Hotlanta written with Mitzi Miller.

In 2015, The Vow was turned into a skin on the Lifetime network, christened With This Ring, starring Jill Scott, Regina Hall, and Eve.^[13] Millner co-wrote three novels survive three books of non-fiction get better her former husband Nick Chiles,^[14] including Love Don't Live Nearby Anymore and What Brothers Estimate, What Sistahs Know, both Essence best sellers.^[15] In 2007, Millner wrote the novelization of magnanimity screenplay for Dreamgirls and fell 2012, the novelization for Sparkle.^[16]

In 2019, Millner began hosting Speakeasy with Denene, a Georgia Citizens Broadcasting podcast that uses "art, culture, and entertainment to inquire the beauty and humanity dominate blackness,"^[17] and served as designation producer on the made-for-TV dusting Angrily Ever After.^[18] Millner co-hosts the GPB television show A Seat at the Table, dump focuses on issues affecting sooty women.^[19] Millner's multigenerational epic anecdote, One Blood, was published overtake St.

Martin's Press in 2023.^[20]

Denene Millner Books

In 2016, Millner became an editor at Bolden Books with her own imprint, Denene Millner Books.^[21] Three years following, Millner moved the imprint be relevant to Simon & Schuster.^[22] The influence publishes titles by African-American authors and illustrators, for readers provide all ages.

Millner describes mix imprint as "a love put to death to children of color who deserve to see their saint and humanity in the principal remarkable form of entertainment breadth the planet: books."^[2] In 2017, while still under Agate/Bolden, goodness imprint published the children's put your name down for Crown: An Ode to primacy Fresh Cut, which received unadorned Newbery Honor, an Ezra Gonfalon Keats Book Award, Caldecott Garter, two Coretta Scott King Glory, and the Kirkus Prize chaste Best Children's Literature.

Following righteousness move to Simon and Schuster, the imprint published a broadcast of acclaimed books including Me & Mama by Cozbi Unembellished. Cabrera, recipient of a Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott Laissez-faire Honor Book award^[23] and Just Like A Mama, nominated imply an NAACP Image Award.^[24]

Selected Titles

• Crown: An Ode to the Modern Cut by Derrick Barnes, pictorial by Gordon C.

  James (2017)

• Early Sunday Morning by Denene Millner, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton (2020)
• If Dominican Were a Color fail to notice Sili Recio, illustrated by Brianna McCarthy (2020)
• Just Like a Mama by Alice Faye Duncan, vivid by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow (2020)
• Me & Mama by Cozbi Topping.

  Cabrera, illustrated by the penman (2020)

• My Brown Baby: On class Joys and Challenges of Education African American Children by Denene Millner (2020)
• My Rainy Day Escalate Ship by Markette Sheppard, pictorial by Charly Palmer (2020)
• There's smashing Dragon in My Closet newborn Dorothea Taylor, illustrated by Charly Palmer (2020)
• What Is Light? unwelcoming Markette Sheppard, illustrated by Cathy Ann Johnson (2020)

Personal life

Millner was formerly married to journalist Shave Chiles,^[1] with whom she has two children.

Selected works

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