ReShonda Tate spotlights Hazel Scott in ‘With Love From Harlem’

ReShonda Tate spotlights Hazel Scott in ‘With Love From Harlem’

ReShonda Tate is no stranger to best-selling, award-winning literary works. Still, she entered historical fiction as something of a newcomer. You wouldn’t know it by the reception to her first foray into the genre, The Queen of Sugar Hill, which brought long-overdue attention to the life of Hattie McDaniel, the first Black person to win an Academy Award. With her latest novel, Tate goes even further. With Love From Harlem immerses readers in the…

5-STAR REVIEW: WITH LOVE FROM HARLEM by ReShonda Tate

Publication Date: January 27, 2026 From The Queen of Sugar Hill author ReShonda Tate—a new novel inspired by beloved Harlem jazz performer Hazel Scott and the equal parts exhilarating and tumultuous relationship that changed the course of her life. Harlem, 1943. At just twenty-three, Hazel Scott is a woman on fire. A jazz prodigy, a glamorous film star, and a fierce advocate for civil rights, she’s breaking barriers and refusing to play by the r…