 Today, Tyree is a New York Times best-selling author, a 2001 NAACP Image Award recipient for Outstanding Literature in Fiction, and a 2006 Phillis Wheatley Literary Award winner for Body of Work in Fiction, and has published 16 books that have sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide.He also has a little cousin that has been writing books ever since she was little.She is now 14 years old and lives in Columbia S.C
Tyree is a popular speaker on the university and corporate circuits.