Power & Beauty (33 page)

About the Authors

TIP “T.I.” HARRIS
is a multiplatinum Grammy Award-winning recording artist, actor, film producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author. He is internationally known for his delivery of authentic stories of inner-city culture and lifestyle through his music. His ability to bridge social and generational gaps through his art, along with his diversity as a multimedia entertainer, made writing a natural integration.
Power & Beauty
is his first novel.

DAVID RITZ
has written several books, including the acclaimed novels
The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn
and
Blue Notes Under a Felt Hat
. He is a four-time winner of the Gleason Book Award and has penned the life stories of many celebrities, including Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, and Grandmaster Flash. The
New York Times
once named him “the first-call celebrity collaborator.”

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Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the authors’ imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

POWER & BEAUTY.
Copyright © 2011 by Tip “T.I.” Harris with David Ritz. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

ISBN 978-0-06-206765-4

EPub Edition © OCTOBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062067678

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