March is Women's History Month, and Inman E. Page Library at Lincoln University is Celebrating African American Women around the state of Missouri.
National bestselling author/writer Terry Baker Mulligan is speaking at 4 p.m. March 12 in room 100 of the library on the Jefferson City campus. She is the author of the novel, "Afterlife in Harlem" and the memoir, "Sugar Hill: Where the Sun Rose Over Harlem," and winner of a 2012 IPPY Award and 2013 Benjamin Franklin Awards.
Mulligan attended both public and private school while growing up in New York, graduating high school from the famous "progressive powerhouse," the New Lincoln School in Harlem. She obtained her bachelor's degree in English from Wagner College in Staten Island, New York, and she completed her formal education at the City College of New York, earning a master of arts degree in English.
The author currently resides in St. Louis and is a member of the Harlem Arts Alliance, the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), and a former secretary of the St. Louis Publishers Association. She recently left her teaching duties at St. Louis Community College to devote her full time to writing.