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. Briscoe grew up in the Silver Spring, Maryland area. 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. Briscoe's first novel, Sisters and Lovers (1994), sold nearly 500,000 copies in cloth and paperback combined in its first two years.ĭarryl 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 Ĭonstance Briscoe was born in Washington, D.C. Connie Briscoe (born December 31, 1952) is an American writer of romantic and historical fiction.
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