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Sherley Anne Williams (August 25, 1944 – July 6, 1999) was an American poet, novelist, professor, vocalist, jazz poet, playwright and social critic. Many of her works tell stories about her life in the African-American community.
Dessa Rose was written as a response to William Styron's 1968 novel The Confessions of Nat Turner. The white man assuming the voice of an African-American man enraged the black community. In Dessa Rose, the author Sherley Anne Williams, a black woman, takes the voice of a white woman.
Dessa Rose is a musical based on the novel of the same name by Sherley Anne Williams with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty.It tells the story of a young black woman and a young white woman and their journey to acceptance in 1847 in the ante-bellum South, as they tell their story to their grandchildren.
William Styron, Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard (2006) Margaret Walker, Jubilee (1966) Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose (1986) Évelyne Trouillot, The Infamous Rosalie (2003) Manu Herbstein, Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2001) Manu Herbstein, Brave Music of a Distant Drum (2011)
Nathaniel Jones, grandson of Nat D. Williams, and Steve Turner, Williams’ great grandson, pose for a photo pointing to the sign during the Nat D. Williams street naming ceremony outside Booker T ...
Alicia D. Williams (born 1970), children's novelist; Chancellor Williams (1893–1992), historian and sociologist; John Alfred Williams (1925–2015), author, journalist and academic; Samm-Art Williams (1946–2024), playwright; Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999) Walter E. Williams (1936–2020) August Wilson (1945–2005), playwright
Nat Turner (October 2, 1800 – November 11, 1831) was an enslaved Black carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in ...
Reviewer Sherley Anne Williams from Ms. defined the novel as "a startling and engrossing commentary on the complex actuality and continuing heritage of American slavery. Seattle Post-Intelligencer writer John Marshall said that Kindred is "the perfect introduction to Butler's work and perspectives for those not usually enamored of science fiction."