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Ramona Lofton (born August 4, 1950), better known by her pen name Sapphire, is an American author and performance poet.
Sapphire (born August 4, 1950, Fort Ord, California, U.S.) is an American author of fiction and poetry that features unsparing though often empowering depictions of the vicissitudes of African American and bisexual life.
Acclaimed international writer, Sapphire the Author's published works include PUSH, The Kid, Black Wings and Blind Angels, and American Dreams.
Sapphire is the author of Push, American Dreams, The Kid, and Black Wings & Blind Angels. Push: A Novel, won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Stephen Crane award for First Fiction; the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award; and in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award.
Apr 29, 2024 · Sapphire is the author of Push, American Dreams, The Kid, and Black Wings & Blind Angels. Push: A novel, won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award, and in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award.
Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, a collection of poetry that was cited by Publishers Weekly as “one of the strongest debut collections of the nineties.”
Nov 6, 2009 · Sapphire wrote the novel Push (renamed Precious) in a fractured ghetto patois that grew out of the author's experiences as a remedial reading teacher.
