News & Reviews

In this episode of Deviate, Rolf Potts speaks with Sophfronia Scott about her working-class Ohio upbringing, and the background behind her name (2:40); her beginnings at TIME Magazine and her groundbreaking article on Generation X (13:00); her mid-life career change and commitment to a career as an author (30:00); her spiritual journey (40:00); and dealing with her son’s [...]

The Root published a list of new and upcoming books by black authors that "will give you life in these perilous times." "Novelist, journalist and professor Sophfronia Scott offers Love’s Long Line, a collection of essays pondering questions of race, motherhood and cultural events." The entire list may be viewed at this link. 

The Amesbury Public Library in Amesbury, Massachusetts recently created and featured in its social media a "bookface" illustration of Unforgivable Love. A bookface image uses a live model to bring the cover image of a book to life. The Unforgivable Love image has been praised and shared multiple times.

Assay: A Journal in Nonfiction Studies, recently featured an interview with Sophfronia Scott in which she and the writer Elizabeth Cohen discuss Love's Long Line and This Child of Faith.  "In the amphitheater of American horror stories, the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting of 20 school children and six adult staffers may be the saddest of all. The [...]

Sophfronia and Tain discussed This Child of Faith and their writing process with The Newtown Bee. "With the cover of their recently published memoir, This Child of Faith: Raising A Spiritual Child in A Secular World, displayed on a projection screen behind them, mother and son Sophfronia Scott and Tain Gregory spoke to and answered questions from [...]

Elizabeth Palmer reviews This Child of Faith in "The Christian Century." She writes, "Tain Gregory was new to Sandy Hook Elementary School when the mass shooting happened, but the faith that helped him respond had been a long time in the making." The review is available at this link.