Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ VERONICA CHAMBERS, New York, N.Y., June 4, 1996 Veronica Chambers (b. 1970) turned her singleminded desire to be a writer into a rite of passage and an act of redemption, capturing both in her spellbinding debut, Mama's Girl 1996). A memoir of her Brooklyn childhood, the book also chronicles her swift rise in the literary world, which includes her former editorial position at the New York Times Magazine. POMEGRANATE