Georgia's 50 Most Influential Women For 2007 

Pearl Cleage

Novelist, Playwright

Pearl is an Atlanta-based writer whose works include three novels, What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day, I Wish I Had A Red Dress, and Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do.  She has also written a dozen plays, two books of essays, and a book of short fiction.  She and her husband, Zaron Burnett, Jr. are also performance artists, under the title Live At Club Zebra.  The two have performed sold-out shows at both The National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and The National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia.  She is a contributing writer to ESSENCE Magazine and in 1998, her novel What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day was an Oprah Book Club pick and spent nine weeks on The New York Times bestseller list.

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