Kathleen McGhee-Anderson

Writer & Producer | TV, Film, Stage & Literature

She’s been referred to as a “literary rebel” American Theatre Magazine, “…a sister who is ‘running things’, this woman is The Man,” by Crisis Magazine, and “…the first woman of color to write a nationally recognized TV series,” Writers Guild of America. McGhee-Anderson has been a force behind the scenes in TV/Film and Stage for decades. She is a graduate of Spelman College, (awarded an Honorary Doctorate,) and an MFA in Film, Columbia University. Raised in Detroit, Michigan, Kathleen has worked as a journalist for the Detroit Free Press, an assistant professor of Film at Howard University and a film editor for local ABC affiliates in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. She resides in Venice, California and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.

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Kathleen
McGhee-Anderson

TV | Film | Stage | Literature
Writer, Producer

She’s been referred to as a “literary rebel” American Theatre Magazine, “…a sister who is ‘running things’, this woman is The Man,” by Crisis Magazine, and “…the first woman of color to write a nationally recognized TV series,” Writers Guild of America. McGhee-Anderson has been a force behind the scenes in TV/Film and Stage for decades. She is a graduate of Spelman College, (awarded an Honorary Doctorate,) and an MFA in Film, Columbia University. Raised in Detroit, Michigan, Kathleen has worked as a journalist for the Detroit Free Press, an assistant professor of Film at Howard University and a film editor for local ABC affiliates in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. She resides in Venice, California and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.

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Press

Praise for Kathleen McGhee Andersons’ “Miss Maybelline’s Nocturnal Flights of Fancy”

Playwright, Poet, Producer

Vineyard Vine by Sissy Biggers

June 27, 2024

Publications

Spanning over decades, this is the remarkable, heartfelt memoir from Abdul ‘Duke’ Fakir, the last surviving member of The Four Tops. Amidst a backdrop of Detroit, I’ll Be There features revealing anecdotes from the group’s formation, their early days as backup singers for the likes of Jackie Wilson, and their years working with Berry Gordy at the legendary Motown Records. Together they comprised one of the most celebrated R&B groups of all time. But remarkable musical success didn’t spare Fakir the pain of marital distress, soured investment deals, struggles with sobriety and the sudden loss of his brothers, all of which he covers in this confessional, unmissable book.

I’LL BE THERE: MY LIF E WITH THE FOUR TOPS

” … I was bound to love Duke Fakir’s memoir, I’ll Be There, just as I have loved the man despite never having met him. But having now read it, you don’t need to like or even know anything about the Four Tops or their music to appreciate it for the honest, uplifting, and beautiful book it is. If you do, however, it’s heaven.”

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