A former director of the Harlem Writers Guild, she published her first novel when she was 55, and her first mystery, featuring a stylish female ex-cop turned sleuth, when she was 64.
Source: New York Times
Grace Edwards, Harlem Mystery Writer, Dies at 87
Published in Black People, Books and Literature, Edwards, Grace F, Harlem (Manhattan, NY) and Writing and Writers
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