United States, 39.76, -98.52001In her novel I Wish I Had a Red Dress (2001), Pearl Cleage addresses the challenges modern-day Black women face.Image of the cover of the 2001 Pearl Cleage novel I Wish I Had a Red Dress. The cover features a stylized image of an African American woman twirling in a voluminous red and white dress. In this novel Cleage addresses the challenges modern-day black women face.Pearl Cleage is a fiction writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and journalist who has lived in Atlanta, Georgia for more than thirty years. In her writing, Cleage draws on her experiences as an activist for AIDS and women's rights, and she cites the rhythms of black life as her muse.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/pearl-cleage-b-1948Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/pearl-cleage-b-1948Forms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaBooks--United StatesLiteratureFictionAfrican American womenDresses--United StatesWomen--United StatesCleage, Pearl. I wish I had a red dressI Wish I Had a Red DressStillImage