![]() Her debut, Quiet Storm, vaulted her into pop culture royalty-it was chosen as a “Rory’s Book Club” selection, the must-read book list for fictional television character Rory Gilmore of Gilmore Girls.Īs high an honor as that was, Howzell Hall continues to have books published with “great notice.” She is the critically acclaimed author and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist for And Now She’s Gone, which was also nominated for the Lefty, Barry, and Anthony awards. But all that scribbling of her youth paid off. It would seem her path to publication had begun paving its own way long before she started her first novel. “That is graffiti,” she writes on her website. She drew the line on walls, buildings, and freeway overpasses. ![]() The kid who kept a pen in her hand at all times, scribbling in notebooks, on loose-leaf paper, in her big brother’s yearbook, and even on the backs of church bulletins. ![]() Acclaimed author Rachel Howzell Hall was that kid. ![]()
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