Tiko campbell biography books
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Elizabeth "Bebe" Moore Campbell was born on February 18, 1950, in Philadelphia. Growing up as an only child of a separated couple, Campbell spent time living with both her parents, staying with her mother Doris in the summer in Philadelphia, and with her father, George in North Carolina. Campbell had close relationships with both her parents, but especially with her father George. The close ties that she had with her family members is shown and deeply expressed in some of her early works. While living with both parents in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, Elizabeth Bebe Moore Campbell attended the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education. She taught elementary and middle school for several years until she began to pursue a new career path in the literary world.
She was married to Ellis Gordon Jr. for twenty-two years and moved to Los Angeles, California, where she started her family. Campbell along with husband Ellis had a son,
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Maia Campbell
American film and television actress
Maia Campbell is an American actress known for her role as Nicole on the 1994 Foxcomedy-drama series South Central and her portrayal of Tiffany Warren in the NBC/UPN sitcom In the House for five seasons (1995–1999). She is also known for her role as Ashley in the 2000 television film Seventeen Again.
Early life and career
[edit]Born in Takoma Park, Maryland, Campbell is the daughter of author Bebe Moore Campbell and Tiko Campbell, an architect and author from Washington, D.C.[1][2] She was raised in the Ladera Heights section of Los Angeles. Campbell has become best known for her role as the witty adolescent daughter on the series In the House, though she has been frequently seen on television.[3] She was featured in a regular role as Nicole in the short-lived Fox series South Central, portraying Larenz Tate's girlfriend, and also had a guest role in Thea. She also had a minor rol
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Bebe Moore Campbell
American novelist, reporter, teacher (1950–2006)
Bebe Moore Campbell (February 18, 1950 – November 27, 2006) was an American author, reporter, and teacher. Campbell was the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001". Her other works include the novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and the winner of the NAACP Image Award for Literature; her memoir, Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad; and her first nonfiction book, Successful Women, Angry Men: Backlash in the Two-Career Marriage. Her essays, articles, and excerpts appear in many anthologies.
Early life and education
[edit]Born Elizabeth Bebe Moore, an only child, and reared in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,[1] she graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls and earned a Bach