Lorene Cary writes about affecting issues: race, the lives of women, education, growing up. And she writes about them in fiction and nonfiction forms. Her latest novel is Pride, published by Doubleday in 1998 and telling the story of four African American female friends. She has also published The Price of a Child (1995), a historical novel about the Underground Railroad, and Black Ice (1991), a memoir of her own life as the first black female student and then teacher at St. Paul's School in New England. Cary has been a contributing editor for Newsweek and an associate editor at TV Guide, and her essays and articles have also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, American Visions, Essence, and Philadelphia magazine. Cary received an M.A and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and pursued additional graduate study at the Sussex University in Falmer, England (M.A.). She is currently a lecturer on fiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University, Bryn Mawr College, Carleton College, Case Western Reserve University, Denison University, Illinois Weslyan University, Georgia State University, and St. John's University. In addition, Cary has founded the Art Sanctuary program for African American arts and culture at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia.