Alice Randall

Alice Randall is the author of The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, Rebel Yell, Ada's Rules, and Black Bottom Saints. She is a Harvard educated African-American novelist who lives in Nashville and writes country songs. Randall has emerged as an innovative food activist committed to reforms that support healthy bodies and healthy communities. With her daughter Caroline Randall Williams she co-authored the acclaimed cookbook Soul Food Love and the young adult novel The Diary of B.B. Bright, Possible Princess winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award. MY BLACK COUNTRY, her memoir, braids the story of her forty years in Nashville working in and around Country Music with the story of her First Family of Black Country and other untold stories of Black Country and the Black West.