Stephanie Stokes Oliver

Photograph by Derrys Richardson

About The Author

Stephanie Stokes Oliver is the author of Daily Cornbread: 365 Secrets for a Healthy Mind, Body, and Spirit; Seven Soulful Secrets for Finding Your Purpose & Minding Your Mission; and Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family. Formerly the editor of Essence, and founding editor-in-chief of Heart & Soul, she started her magazine career at Glamour. For more information, see StephanieStokesOliver.com.

Books by Stephanie Stokes Oliver

Black Ink

Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing

Edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver / Foreword by Nikki Giovanni
Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this masterful collection of twenty-five illustrious and moving essays on the power of the written word.

Throughout American history black people are the o...
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Song for My Father

Memoir of an All-American Family

By Stephanie Stokes Oliver
On Election Day in 1960, a classmate of Stephanie Stokes Oliver threatened to beat her up. Why? Because in their class's mock presidential election, Stephanie revealed that she would follow her father's lead and vote for Nixon over Kennedy. Stephanie realized this day that her family was differen...
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