![]() ![]() ![]() Her prior novel The Revisioners, won a 2020 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work and a George Garrett New Writing Award was a California and Northern California Book Award finalist, a 2020 Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award Finalist and a Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing finalist was nominated for the 2020 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize and was a national bestseller as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her most recent novel On the Rooftop was a Reese Witherspoon “Reese’s Book Club” pick for September 2022. Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, born and raised in New Orleans, studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. San Francisco's Fillmore the "Harlem of the West" is the setting for this compelling story about family and community and a mother's aspirations for her musical daughters amid threatening relationships and gentrification. Meet the Author: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton ![]()
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