Biography on the african american author zanes

Pseudonym of author Kristina Laferne Roberts

Zane (born Kristina Laferne Roberts; 1966/1967)^[1] is an American author of erotic fiction novels.^[2] She is best known for her novel Addicted.^[3]

Biography

Kristina Laferne Roberts grew up in Washington DC and Silver Spring Maryland with her brother Deotis, and her two sisters Charmaine Roberts and Carlita Roberts.^[4] Her father, J.

Deotis Roberts, was an influential theologian and author, and her mother Elizabeth Caldwell Roberts was an elementary school teacher.^[5] Roberts attended Spelman College in Atlanta for one year, then moved Howard University to major in chemical engineering (without graduating).^[5]

In 1997, Zane began writing erotic stories to pass the time after her children went to bed.^[6] She was living in North Carolina and working as a sales representative.

The stories developed a following on the Internet and she self-publi