The Book in Room 316 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

She, and fellow Simon & Schuster author Victoria Christopher Murray, co-founded Brown Girl Books in 2014. She served as a host and producer for KPFT’s From Cover to Cover literary talk show from 2009 to 2013, and KTSU’s The Sista Xchange from 2011 to 2014. Billingsley has also served as a reporter and editor for the Houston Defender since 1993.

She became a National Bestselling Author of over forty fiction, non-fiction, and teen fiction books. Billingsley published her first book in 2001 My Brother’s Keeper, which was picked up by publishing company Simon & Schuster the following year. In 2003, she returned to Houston as a reporter for KRIV-TV, the Fox-affiliate, where she remained until 2007. From 1997-2003, Billingsley was a reporter and anchor for the NBC-affiliated KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1996, she accepted a position in Houston, Texas as a reporter for KPRC-TV, the NBC-affiliate. After a year at KTRK, Billingsley moved to the NBC-affiliate KJAC-TV in Port Arthur, Texas, as an anchor, reporter and talk show host. degree in broadcast journalism in 1991.īillingsley began her career in 1993 as an associate producer for KTRK-TV, an ABC-affiliate in Houston, Texas.

Billingsley graduated from Madison High School in Houston, Texas in 1987, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her B.A. Author and journalist ReShonda Tate Billingsley was born on September 7, 1969, in Kansas City, Missouri.

The Book in Room 316 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley