Alice Randall is the author of five novels: The Wind Done Gone; Pushkin and the Queen of Spades; Rebel Yell; Ada’s Rules; and Black Bottom Saints. Randall was the first black woman to pen a #1 country hit as co-writer of XXX’s and OOO’s which celebrates Aretha Franklin. With her daughter, Caroline Randall Williams, she co-authored the iconic cookbook Soul Food Love that won the NAACP Image Award and the young adult novel, B.B. Bright, Possible Princess, which received the Phillis Wheatley award. A Professor and Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University in the Department of African American studies, she holds an honorary doctorate from Fisk University and a B.A from Harvard. A native of Detroit, MI, she resides in Nashville, TN.
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