ReShonda Tate Billingsley

ReShonda Tate is a pen name, and the books under it are written by ReShonda Tate Billingsley, an American author and journalist born in 1969. She is best known for Let the Church Say Amen, which was adapted into a film directed by Regina King that aired on BET, and for The Jackson Family Saga, which begins with Everybody Say Amen. Three of her novels have been nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Fiction, and she is a USA Today bestselling author who now writes historical fiction.