Candace Allen

Candace Allen (* 1950 in Boston ) is an American writer.

life and work

Candace Allen was born in Boston, USA in 1950. She studied at Harvard and New York and worked in the Hollywood film industry for eighteen years. After several scripts she wrote her first novel "Valaida". In it, she creates the largely fictional biography of the Afro-American jazz trumpeter Valaida Snow, who is fighting for her place in a male-dominated profession, in a fluid prose rich in moods and memorable images. The author lives in London. She was the second wife of the English conductor Sir Simon Rattle .

Others

Candace Allen was a participant at the International Literature Festival Berlin 2004. 2019 she was included in the anthology New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby recorded in the black, female literature of the last two centuries is represented.

Works

• "Valaida" ; Virago, London, 2004