Lise Funderburg

About The Author

Lise Funderburg is an award-winning author and journalist. Her books include the bestselling memoir Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home, the acclaimed oral history Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity, and The Color Purple: A Memory Book of the Broadway Musical. The recipient of numerous fellowships and grants, she teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Find out more at LiseFunderburg.com.

Books by Lise Funderburg

Purple Rising

Celebrating 40 Years of the Magic, Power, and Artistry of The Color Purple

By Lise Funderburg and Scott Sanders

One of Oprah’s Favorite Things of 2023

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece The Color Purple—as well as the acclaimed 1985 film from Steven Spielberg, the Tony-winning Broadway musical, and the all-new film adaptation with this gorge...

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Pig Candy

Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home: A Memoir

By Lise Funderburg

The “wonderful” (Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Times bestselling author), poignant, and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months in the rural town he’d fled as a young Black man.