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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
32 Yolks
Yes, Chef
Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa
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
32 Yolks
Yes, Chef
Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa
Miss Black America
Mama's Girl

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