It would seem that James Frey and Cupcake Brown have a lot in common. Both overcame crack addictions and wrote memoirs about their fights for sobriety, both published their books under the vast Random ...

Cupcake Brown, a former prostitute and drug addict who nearly died alone on the streets, knew she would cry yesterday when she graduated from the University of San Francisco law school near the top of ...

When Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney was abducted in 2019 and taken to the apartment of Patrick Stallworth and his girlfriend, Derick Irisha Brown, she was somewhere she didn’t belong and with the wrong ...

Cupcake Brown's memoir A Piece of Cake traces a difficult life through foster care, addiction and rehab, to a successful legal career. Brown tells Farai Chideya her harrowing yet inspiring story. And ...

Reading can be a pain for some people, maybe because they haven’t found the right book. Let me tell you about the book being passed around at my school. A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown is truly an ...

Derick Irisha Brown, charged with capital murder in the 2019 deadly abduction of 3-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney, is pleading not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. The 32-year-old ...

Writer Cupcake Brown is living proof that people can turn their lives around, even in the most dire circumstances. As a young woman, she was a drug addict, a runaway, a high school dropout and a gang ...