Pearl Cleage

Pearl Cleage, a Spelman College graduate, is a novelist, playwright, and essayist whose work includes What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day and Flyin’ West. She has been a central literary voice in Atlanta for decades.

Novelist and playwright; Oprah’s Book Club author.
Longtime Atlanta artist-in-residence and public intellectual.
Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in 2011.