Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her most recent novel, THE REVISIONERS, won a 2020 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work and was a national bestseller as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her debut novel, A KIND OF FREEDOM, was longlisted for the National Book Award. She lives in Oakland with her family.

Books by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

On the Rooftop

by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - Fiction, Historical Fiction

This stunning novel is about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters’ ambitions for their own lives --- set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco.