Instead, she treats all her characters as complex individuals and does not render them in stereotypical fashion. Noted for her thoughtful treatment of racial issues, her portrayal of black fatherhood, and her discussions of the problems of middle-class, well-educated blacks, Campbell has won praise from critics. As her books are well-written and engrossing, and address and explore contemporary social issues, Campbell is a popular author, in demand in bookstores and on talk shows. For her memoir,
Sweet Summer, and novels,
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, Brothers and Sisters, and
Singing in the Comeback Choir, Campbell is increasingly regarded as an important African American writer of the twentieth century.
Campbell's parents divorced when she was an infant. While her father was a willing participant in her life, writing letters and sending her mother money, she lived with him only during the summers. Campbell looked forward to those summers with her father. She wrote in Sweet Summer, "it became an end-of-June ritual, an annual event, something I could set my clock by, set my heart on. . . . It wasn't my ritual alone, of course. I was like a lot of northern black children making the annual trek down south to the Carolinas, to Georgia, Alabama, or Mississippi.
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