The 13th Fellow

Tracy Whiting is also known as T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, the award-winning Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. An undergraduate at the University of Rochester, she received the Ph.D. in French Studies at Brown University in Providence, RI. She has published over 14 academic books. She has been a commentator on NPR, FOX News, and MSNBC. Her work has been reviewed in the Washington Post, the Nashville Scene, and Ms. Magazine. Her first foray into mystery, Miss Baker Regrets, was published as Book II in Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars in February 2015.