Lolita Files

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Lolita Files is a contemporary African-American author and screenwriter. Her most popular books include Scenes from a Sistah^[1] and Child of God.^[2] Files has a degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Florida and resides in Los Angeles, CA. In 2005, rap artist Kanye West optioned the film rights of her fourth novel, Child of God.^[3] Files' sixth novel, Sex.Lies.Murder.Fame^[4] was optioned for film by Carolyn Folks for Entertainment Studios. Files reclaimed the film rights for Child of God back from Kanye West in 2009.^[5]

Lolita Files is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Partial bibliography

Scenes from a Sistah - published by Warner Books, April 1997
Getting to the Good Part - published by Warner Books, January 1999
Blind Ambitions - published by Simon & Schuster, September 2000
Child of God - published by Simon & Schuster, September 2001
Tastes Like Chicken - published by Simon & Schuster, May 2004
sex.lies.murder.fame. - published by Amistad/HarperCollins, January 2006

Files has short stories featured in the following anthologies: "Roses, Red, Room 416" in Black Silk, published by Warner Books; "Bobby Q's Sauce" in Twilight Moods, published by Flowers in Bloom; and "Standing Room Only" in Brown Sugar 3: When Opposites Attract, published by Washington Square Press. Her novella, "Three For The Road," featured in the anthology, You Only Get Better, a collection of three novellas by Files, Connie Briscoe, and Anita Bunkley, was published in March 2007. The paperback of sex.lies.murder.fame. was published in May 2007.

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