Candace Allen (author)

Candace Allen ( b. 1950 in Boston ) is an American writer.

Life and work

Candace Allen was born in 1950 in Boston, USA. She studied at Harvard and New York and worked for eighteen years in the film industry in Hollywood. After several screenplays she wrote her first novel " Valaida ." In it, she creates in a liquid, rich in moods and memorable images prose largely fictional biography of the Afro- American jazz trumpeter Valaida Snow, resulting in a male-dominated profession their place fought for. the author lives in London. She was the second wife of the English conductor Sir Simon Rattle.

Others

Candace Allen was a participant at the International Literature Festival Berlin 2004.

Works

  • " Valaida "; Virago, London, 2004
  • Author
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature ( 21st century)
  • Novel, epic
  • Americans
  • Born in 1950
  • Woman
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