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| October 30, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Philadelphia Inquirer. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Thomas J. Brady

When Venise Berry set out to write "All of Me: A Voluptuous Tale" (E.P. Dutton, $23.95), the story of an African American TV newswoman struggling with her weight and self-esteem, she certainly was heeding the old advice to write about what you know.

After all, as she observed in a recent interview, "I've yo-yo'ed up and down [in weight] all my life just like Serpentine [Williamson, her heroine] and I just decided I wanted to better understand what was going on. . . . Once I started doing research for myself, I said, `You know, people need to know this.' At first, I thought about nonfiction, but I decided it would be more fun to do it as fiction. I also had to distance myself from it because it's a difficult topic for me."

In "All of Me," Serpentine has…

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