She has received numerous awards for her artwork. Also while in Paris, she married a photojournalist named Marc Edward Riboud, with whom she had two children. They later divorced, and she married Sergio Tosi in 1981. Because sculpting was the first art that she became successful with, her writing career almost seems secondary. First of all writing isn't my second choice.
Writing is a parallel vocation.
She started her literary career with a book of poetry titled From Memphis and Peking , which was edited by Toni Morrison and published in 1974. It was inspired by her visits to Egypt and China. She was actually the first American woman to visit China after their revolution. Her next work, the novel Sally Hemings , was the book that made her well known. She had become fascinated by the story of a slave named Sally Hemings who had had a romantic relationship with Thomas Jefferson.