About

Michael De Clemente hails from Long Island, New York, though he is often mistaken for a native of Brooklyn. He comes from an mostly Italian family with deep ties to the East New York neighborhood  which has resulted in a distinctly Brooklynesque accent and attitude. When asked he will often say, he grew up on Long Island in a Brooklyn household.

    As a child, he daydreamed of far off places and stories. Growing up in the 1980s, some of his greatest influences were films such as: Jaws, Star Wars and Indiana Jones, and Big Trouble in Little China; just to name a few.  It wasn’t until his late twenties he started to dabble in writing. 

   Now having written 15 books, Michael dedicates most of his time to the Tandieka Purse company founded in memory of his late wife Tandieka De Clemente. It is Michael’s goal now to not only make sure his wife memory is kept alive, but to secure her legacy. Tandieka wanted nothing more than to educate, and before she passed she managed to at least complete her memoir in the hopes that her story will educate and teach others for years to come. It is Michael’s hope, that with the success of Tandieka Purses, he will establish the Tandieka Scholarship Fund where no child that wants to go to school is ever left behind. Because Tandieka in her very core believed Education, was one of the many keys to success.