**Terry McMillan *is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It's Not All Downhill From Here, I Almost Forgot About You, Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back,and other novels,and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction *. Four of her novels ...

**Terry McMillan *is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It's Not All Downhill From Here, I Almost Forgot About You, Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back,and other novels,and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction *. Four of her novels have been made into movies: * Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Disappearing Acts,and A Day Late and a Dollar Short *. She lives in California.