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Her first novel, Tumbling, was published in 1996 by William Morrow and Company. She won a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant for a 500-page first draft. McKinney-Whetstone began writing when she was 39, joining the Rittenhouse Writer's Group, founded by University of Pennsylvania instructor James Rahn. She is married to Greg Whetstone and they have twins, Taiwo, a daughter and Kehinde, a son. Diane received a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. She is the second of five daughters born to Pennsylvania State Senator Paul McKinney and his wife Bessie, with an older sister from her father's previous relationship, and also an older brother and sister from her mother’s first marriage. Her works of fiction have won numerous awards, including the BCALA Literary Award for Fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. ( January 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭiane McKinney-Whetstone (born August 14, 1953) is an American author and is a member of the University of Pennsylvania Creative Writing program faculty. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject.
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