Connie Briscoe

Connie Briscoe (born December 31, 1952) is an American writer of romantic and historical fiction. Briscoe's first novel, Sisters and Lovers, sold nearly 500,000 copies in cloth and paperback combined in its first two years.

Darryl Dickson-Carr has characterized Briscoe as "among the better writers to emerge in and benefit from the strong wave of interest in African-American fiction that arose in the early 1990s after the publication of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale (1992)."

Early life and education Connie Briscoe was born in Washington, D.C., on December 31, 1952. She was born with a hearing impairment due to a genetic condition and became profoundly deaf by the age of thirty, though she became adept at lip-reading.

She attended Hampton University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1974, and American University, graduating with a Master of Public Administration degree in 1978.

Career Briscoe worked as a research analyst from 1976 to 1980, then as an associate editor for Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies from 1981 to 1990. From 1990 to 1994, she worked as the managing editor for American Annals of the Deaf, an academic journal published by Gallaudet University Press. In 2022, in USA Today she was named in an article titled100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read, from Abi Daré to Zora Neale Hurston.

Works Sisters and Lovers, New York: Harper Collins, 1994 Big Girls Don't Cry, New York: Harper Collins, 1996, A Long Way from Home, New York: Harper Collins, 1999, P. G. County, Doubleday, New York, 2002, Can't get enough, New York: Doubleday, 2005, You Only Get Better: Celebrating Life Every Step of the Way, New York: Kimani Press, 2007 Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50, New York: Little Brown and Company, 2007 Sisters and Husbands, New York: Grand Central Publishers, 2009 Money Can't Buy Love, New York: Grand Central Publishers, 2011, You Never Know, New York: Harper Collins, 2023, Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans over Fifty, New York: Clarkson Potter, 2023, Chloe, New York: Harper Collins, 2025,

Awards In 2000, Briscoe was honored by Gallaudet University with the Amos Kendall Award, "presented to a deaf person in recognition of his or her notable excellence in a professional field not related to deafness". Her third book, A Long Way From Home, was nominated for the NAACP Image Awards.