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Books
 The Color Purple: A Memory Book, with a forward by Oprah Winfrey (Carroll & Graf, 2006).
From the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by Alice Walker, and the moving film by Steven Spielberg, has come a soul-stirring new musical and landmark Broadway hit that has critics and audiences on their feet. A musical that evokes a unique emotional response, it tracks the story of its heroine, Celie, from sexual abuse by her stepfather to physical abuse by her husband to "a roof-raising story of triumph."
This gorgeously produced companion volume revisits what is so powerful about the show. The Color Purple: A Memory Book has the look and feel of a beautiful antique scrapbook, a keepsake for those who have experienced the musical and want to be able to experience its soaring emotions at any time, or who want to share Celie's journey with their loved ones. But it will also be a memory book of the road The Color Purple took -- from Alice Walker's memories right through to the sketches for the costumes and sets, from the cast's own struggles to the entire libretto, all of which have given Celie's against-the-odds triumph new life.
"Revealing, poignant, and stunning, The Color Purple: A Memory Book is a must-have book for anyone moved by Celie's story." -- Amazon.com
 Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity (William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1994; Quill, 1995).
In Black, White, Other journalist Lise Funderburg presents the lives and views of forty-six adult children of black-white unions. Topics include love and marriage, racism in the workplace, and bringing up children in a racially divided world. The first book ever to explore the lives of adult children of black-white unions, Black, White, Other is for the millions of biracial Americans, and for everyone who is interested in the subject of race and the prospects for achieving true pluralism in America.
Praise for Black, White, Other
"Important...an example of how we can talk about race with feeling, humor, and dignity." -- Kyoko Mori, The New York Times
"[The] pages seethe with a tapestry of life....No book is more likely to force a reader to confront his beliefs about race than this one." --The Buffalo News
"A rich and moving book." -- Margo Jefferson, Elle magazine
"Funderburg lets her subjects ask--and answer--the controversial, touchy questions that many have wondered but few dared to pose." -- Indianapolis Star
"A stunning portrayal of race in America, entirely unique in perspective." -- National Black Book Review
"A sensitive exploration of the pressures and prejudices confronting biracial individuals." -- Publishers Weekly
Essays
Bloodlines Breathe, March/April 2005
In Praise of Procrastination: Why wasting time can actually be a good thing SELF, September 2003
Stone on Stone: All by herself, a Philadelphia woman builds a rock-walled garden House Beautiful, August 2003
Are We Having Fun Yet? O the Oprah Magazine, February 2003
Taking In the Trash The New York Times Magazine, December 8, 2002
Dumpster Diving Dusted Off and Fondled Speakeasy, Fall 2002
Food: A Lust Story O the Oprah Magazine, March 2002
I Am What I Say I Am TIME, March 26, 2001
Master Gardener Ruminator Review, Winter 2000-2001
Letter From Monticello Savoy magazine, February 2001
Generations Ruminator Review, Spring 2000
Inside and Out Skin, Spring 2000
Lost and Found The Chattahoochee Review, Fall 1997
A Woman of Some Color Mirabella, May 1994
Features
Great Food: The Soul of a New Cuisine O the Oprah Magazine, September 2006
Great Food: Claws for Rejoicing O the Oprah Magazine, August 2006
Plants get a second chance The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 9, 2006
Our Town O the Oprah Magazine, April 2006
The Color Purple O the Oprah Magazine, December 2005
Let the Sun Shine In O at Home Magazine, Winter 2005
The Little Chill O the Oprah Magazine, November 2005
How Much Is Enough? O the Oprah Magazine, March 2005
Looking Out for #2 O the Oprah Magazine, February 2005
Dial M for Miracle O the Oprah Magazine, June 2004
Set Yourself Free Ladies Home Journal, March 2004
Senior Achievement: For a thriving culture of active seniors, tennis is the elixir of youth USTA Magazine, November/December 2003
Cider With the Soul of Wine The New York Times, November 12, 2003
Authors on Reviews Poets & Writers, May June 2003
Is She the Most Shocking Woman on Television? O the Oprah Magazine, January 2003
Diane Sawyer's Body of Work O the Oprah Magazine, April 2002
Philly's Free-Speech Face-Off TIME, July 24, 2002
We Focus on Our Daughters' Bodies More Than Their Minds O the Oprah magazine, August 2002
Cheers O the Oprah Magazine, February 2002
Food for the Heart: Ruth Reichl serves up a second delicious memoir TIME, April 30, 2001
Is It Hot Yoga Or Just Balmy?: TIME's Lise Funderburg tells us how she came to love the once-hated Bikram yoga TIME, April 15, 2001
The F Word O the Oprah Magazine, September 2001
The Bearable Enlightenment of Weights O the Oprah Magazine, November 2001
Saving Jason LIFE, May 2000
Race in Class, After Integration The Nation, June 5, 2000
The Last Goodbye: When both parents die, middle-aged children must adjust to a new stage of life in which they become adult orphans TIME, November 13, 2000
Integration Anxiety: Montclair, N.J., has embraced racial diversity like no other town in America. But race, it turns out, is never a black-and-white issue The New York Times Magazine, November 7, 1999
Loving Thy Neighborhood The Nation, December 14, 1998
So You Want to be an Author Essence, May 1998
Crossing the Demographic Divide American Demographics, October 1998
Pieces of a Dream: Quilts are feats of connection, one person to another The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, October 5, 1997
Canine Campus: Where top dogs are taught to plotz Brooklyn Bridge, February 1996
The Agony and the Extracts: Double Trouble? Front End Lifter? Jamaican root-drinks pack a punch. Brooklyn Bridge, March 1996
Home: Honoring elders means allowing them to age in place, in the communities they helped build Metropolis, November 1996
What binds us together Glamour, December 1996
Mystery Man: Walter Mosley recasts the gumshoe genre Mirabella, July 1994
The New Moms on the Block New Woman, January 1994
Book Reviews
The Perils of Passing The LA Times, 2006
Shaking the Family Tree Newsday, January 15, 2006
Everybody's Reading Group Newsday, February 27, 2005
New Fiction Speakeasy, January/February 2004
A Small-town Murder Newsday, July 11, 2004
The Men Aboard the Sleeping Car Newsday, August 8, 2004
No Matter How Much You Promise To Cook Or Pay The Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain’t Never Coming Home Again by Edgardo Vega Yunqué Newsday, November 2, 2003
The Poisoned Pen Newsday, August 10, 2003
A Sparkling Life: Zora Neale Hurston was one of the stars of the Harlem Renaissance. A new book illuminates her complicated history Newsday, January 5, 2003
IT MUST'VE BEEN SOMETHING I ATE: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything, by Jeffrey Steingarten Newsday, November 17, 2002
Skin Deep: WHITEGIRL by Kate Manning Newsday, February 3, 2002
Finding Fish by Antwone Quenton Fisher TIME, February 26, 2001
Identity Gap: A memoir of growing up biracial falls too short TIME, January 15, 2001
Troublemaker and Other Saints by Christina Chiu TIME, March 26, 2001
Hope and Despair in the Poor South: Sap Rising by Christine Lincoln Newsday, September 30, 2001
Like a Rolling Stone: Playing Botticelli by Liza Nelson Newsday, February 6, 2000
The Fisher King by Paule Marshall TIME, November 6, 2000
Force of Habit: A probing look at the lives of contemporary nuns TIME, November 13, 2000
Ticket to Read: Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller, illustrated by Gregory Christie; Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora, illustrated by Raul Colon; The Library Card by Jerry Spinelli Hungry Mind Review, January 1, 1998
A Dream Deferred by Shelby Steele Amazon.com, October 1998
Tales in Black and White Essence, March 1998
Scratching the Itch Essence, July 1998
Love Invents Us by Amy Bloom Salon.com, 1997
The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia Salon.com, May 12, 1997
Naming the New World by Calvin Baker The New York Times, March 23, 1997
Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller The New York Times, August 31, 1997
The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament by Robert Sapolsky Salon.com, April 4, 1997
Color Blind Time Out New York, May 22-29, 1996
Tragic Mulatto Girl Wonder: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler QBR The Black Book Review, February/March 1996
Out of the Mulatto Closet Newsday, February 4, 1996
Film Review
Imperfect Harmony Mirabella, August 1999
Op Ed
In film on race, just an American Family The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 12, 1999
Boxed In The New York Times, July 10, 1996
Restaurant Reviews
Checking Out Cafes: At a hotel restaurant, local diners can savor the romance of travel without the trip New Jersey Commuter, May 1992
Foreign Tastes: Two lunch spots that cater to customers' desires for something new and different New Jersey Commuter, April 1992
Interviews
Talking With Terry Gross: Host of NPR’s “Fresh Air.” Newsday, September 19, 2004
Power moves: A conversation with Maya Angelou and Eleanor Holmes Norton Essence, August, 1998
Calculated Risks New York Newsday, August 8, 1999
The Essence Dialogue: Who Should Adopt Our Children? Essence, January 1998
The Essence Dialogue: Will Welfare Reform Work? Essence, February 1997
A "Commonplace" Conversation with Lani Guinier African American Review, Volume 30, Number 2, 1996
Jumping for Her Life: Talking with Veronica Chambers New York Newsday, August 4, 1996
'I Passionately Wanted to Be Deaf': The New York Newsday Interview with Leah Hager Cohen New York Newsday, February 10, 1994
When Identity Isn't Black, White or Other: The New York Newsday Interview with Nampeo McKenney New York Newsday, November 4, 1994
Why Can't Adoption Be Multicultural?: The New York Newsday Interview with Elizabeth Bartholet New York Newsday, August 25, 1993
Anthologies
Live Your Best Life: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews, and Inspiration from O, The Oprah Magazine
(Oxmoor House)
These Hands I Know: African American Writers on Family
Edited by Afaa Michael Weaver
(Sarabande Books)
Powerweb: The Family
Edited by Kathleen R. Gilbert
(McGraw-Hill/Dushkin)
101 Damnations: The Humorists' Tour of Personal Hells
Edited by Michael J. Rosen
(St. Martin's Press)
21st Century Dog: A Visionary Compendium
Edited by Michael J. Rosen
(Stewart Tabori & Chang)
The American Civil Rights Movement: Readings & Interpretations
Edited by Raymond D'Angelo
(McGraw-Hill/Dushkin)
Identity Matters: Rhetorics of Difference
Edited by Lillian Bridwell-Bowles
(Prentice-Hall)
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Praise for Pig Candy
"Pig Candy is a candid and moving memoir of a daughter's deep love for her father both when he is most difficult to love and impossible not to. Unforgettable and powerful, we are changed for the better by every page of it." -- Edwidge Danticat, author of Brother, I'm Dying
"With Pig Candy, Lise Funderburg has achieved something very remarkable in contemporary memoir: a personal narrative that is crisply intelligent rather than cleverly self-satisfied, deeply and meaningfully emotional rather than soppily sentimental. Even better, she has used her considerable powers -- of private observation, of social empathy, and of historical imagination -- to transform an already gripping personal narrative into an overwhelming parable about race, family, and mortality. A wonderful book." -- Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
"With a daughter's compassion and a journalist's precision, Lise Funderburg recounts the final years of her father's life on his farm in Georgia. But Pig Candy is more than simply the story of George Newton Funderburg. It's an extraordinary portrait of how a difficult place shapes a man, how a daughter loves a challenging father, and how the act of remembering even the most painful aspects of our personal and collective histories can make us whole." -- Bliss Broyard, author of One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race & Family Secrets
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