Bebe Moore Campbell, whose many bestsellers such as Brothers and Sisters touched on America’s ethnic and social divides, died Monday, Nov. 27, 2006. She was 56.
Campbell died at home in Los Angeles from complications due to brain cancer. She was diagnosed with the disease in February.
“My wife was a phenomenal woman who did it her way,” husband Ellis Gordon Jr. said. “She loved her family and her career as a writer.”
Her books, largely fiction and based on real-life stories, included the perspective of many ethnic groups.
One of her first novels, Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine, was published in 1992 and spanned a 40-year period. It dealt with prejudice in the United States. The book earned her an NAACP Image Award for literature.
Campbell, whose full name was Elizabeth Bebe Moore Campbell Gordon, was born in February in 1950 in Philadelphia. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971.
Campbell is survived by her husband; a son, Ellis Gordon III; a daughter, Maia Campbell; her mother, Doris Moore; and two grandchildren.