Alice Randall Bio, Age, Husband, Daughter, Music, Books, The Wind Done Gone, Soul Food Love

Alice Randall Biography

Alice Randall is an American writer and country songwriter, she is best known for The Wind Done Gone (2001), a book that parodies Gone with the Wind. Her other published works include Pushkin and the Queen of Spades (2004) and Rebel Yel

Alice Randall Age

Randall was born on  May 4, 1959 in  Michigan,  Detroit, the United States of America. She is 60 years old. Alice Randall was primarily raised in Washington D.C. About her education, She studied English and American literature at Harvard University, graduating with honors in the early 1980s. She later became a writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Alice Randal Husband|Daughter

Randall is married to David Ewing, an attorney. Alice has a daughter who goes by the name Caroline Randall Williams. Her daughter is also an author, the granddaughter of Avon Williams, who was once a Tennessee State senator, and key leader of the city’s civil rights movement. Avon was also Nashville’s lawyer. Caroline duo with her mother on writing the book” Soul Food Love

Alice Randall Music

Randall is the first African-American woman to co-write a number-one country hit. The single “XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)” was released in 1994 by country music singer Trisha Yearwood. Over 20 of her songs have been recorded, including several top 10 and top 40 records; her songs have been performed by Trisha Yearwood and Mark O’Connor.

Alice Randall Books

Randall is the author of three novels:

• The Wind Done Gone (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001)
• Pushkin and the Queen of Spades (2004)
• Rebel Yell (2009)

Alice Randall The Wind Done Gone

Randall’s first novel The Wind Done Gone is a reinterpretation and parody of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel Gone with the Wind. The Wind Done Gone essentially tells the same story as Gone with the Wind but from the viewpoint of Scarlett O’Hara’s half-sister Cynara, a mulatto slave on Scarlett’s plantation and the daughter of Scarlett’s father and mammy. Sold from the O’Hara, Cynara eventually makes her way back to Atlanta and becomes the mistress of a white businessman. Randall and her publishing company, Houghton Mifflin, were sued in April 2001 by Mitchell’s estate on the grounds that The Wind Done Gone infringed the copyright of Gone with the Wind.

The lawsuit was eventually settled, allowing The Wind Done Gone to be published with the addition of a label describing it as “An Unauthorized Parody” In addition, Houghton Mifflin agreed to make a financial contribution to the Morehouse College, a historically black educational institution in Atlanta supported by the Mitchell estate. The novel became a New York Times bestseller.

Alice Randall Pushkin and the Queen of Spades

Randall’s second novel, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, was named as one of The Washington Post’s “Best fiction of 2004.”  The story is about Pushkin X, the football superstar, and the son Windsor Armstrong. Pushkin X is in is in love with a Russian lap dancer. In Windsor’s opinion, Pushkin is throwing away everything she has worked for. When she was an unwed teenaged mother, Windsor left her shady Detroit roots behind to attend Harvard. Therefore, Windsor raised Pushkin to be smart, brave, and intelligent.

Nonetheless, he lives for pro football and a white lady who goes by the name Tanya. She becomes disappointed by her son’s decision, but she doesn’t stop loving Pushkin since he is the son she has. Windsor at one point decides to expose her hidden secret: the real identity of Pushkin’s father. Windsor plays as a woman with a large heart who only wishes best for her son.

Alice Randall  and Caroline Randall Williams Soul Food Love

Soul Food Love is a mother-daughter duo redefines soul food by mining the traditions of four generations of black women and creating 80 healthy recipes to help everyone live longer and stronger. The Soul Food Love relates the author’s fascinating family history which mirrors that of much of black America in the 20th century. Thus, explores the often fraught relationship African American women have had with food and forges a powerful new way forward that honors their cultural and culinary heritage

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Alice Randall Net Worth

Alice Randall is an American Country Singer who has a net worth of $100,000 – $1M as of 2019