Veronica Chambers, author portrait
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Veronica Chambers

Veronica Chambers is a prolific author, best known for her critically acclaimed memoir Mama's Girl. She coauthored the award-winning memoir Yes, Chef with chef Marcus Samuelsson, as well as Samuelsson's young-adult memoir Make It Messy, and has collaborated on four New York Times bestsellers, most recently 32 Yolks, which she cowrote with chef Eric Ripert. She has been a senior editor at the New York Times MagazineNewsweek, and Glamour. Born in Panama and raised in Brooklyn, she writes often about her Afro-Latina heritage. She speaks, reads, and writes Spanish, but she is truly fluent in Spanglish. She is currently a John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University. Her upcoming novel is The Go-Between.
Flora la Fresca & the Plot to Make Millions
Flora la Fresca & the Art of Friendship
Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb
Queen Bey
The Go-Between
32 Yolks
The Meaning of Michelle
Make It Messy
Yes, Chef
Plus
Having It All?
Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa
The Joy of Doing Things Badly
Miss Black America
Mama's Girl

Books

Flora la Fresca & the Plot to Make Millions
Flora la Fresca & the Art of Friendship
Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb
Queen Bey
The Go-Between
32 Yolks
The Meaning of Michelle
Make It Messy
Yes, Chef
Plus
Having It All?
Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa
The Joy of Doing Things Badly
Miss Black America
Mama's Girl

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