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Because crimes like Winter Santiaga's have consequences, because prison is real, and because “It was my desire to show our people that this lifestyle that we glorify is actually a death-style": the author, on her Christian vision and growing up in fear of heroin.
"The Coldest Winter Ever" was one of the best-selling novels of 1999 and has since sold more than a million copies. Needless to say, the publisher wanted more
The Atlantic Sister Souljah, the author of The Coldest Winter Ever, a formative work of “street lit,” returns with a sequel after 22 years. From the first pages of Sister Souljah’s 1999 debut novel, The Coldest Winter Ever, the teenage protagonist declares that she’s been a style icon since birth. “The same night I got home my pops gave me a diamond ring set in 24-karat gold,” Winter Santiaga says. Practical considerations, such as whether her infant fingers could even hold up the rings, mattered less to the Brooklyn-raised diva than the shine. “It was important for me to kno...
The Idea Of Beautiful and the Grammy Award-nominated Laila’s Wisdom, which arrived in 2017. But it was 2019’s EVEthat firmly solidified her place among Hip Hop’s elite and established her fierce omni-presence in a historically male-dominated industry. Charlamagne Tha God appears to appreciate the Snow Hill, North Carolina MC as much as her fans. During a recent episode of The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne, Angela Yee and DJ Envy were talking to author Sister Souljah about her latest book Life After Death: A Novel (The Coldest Winter Ever Book 2) when Yee asked what female rappers...
In 1999, Sister Souljah published her first novel, "The Coldest Winter Ever," considered by some to be the mother of what's been called urban or street fiction and its first