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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.
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 Southampton County, Virginia in August 1831.
Ann Turner (director) (born 1960), Australian film director and screenwriter; Ann Turner (canoeist) (born 1956), American canoeist; Ann Turner, "a half-blooded Miami" Indian noted in the 1818 Treaty of St. Mary's; Ann Tennant ("Ann Turner" erron.), British 1875 murdered "witch" noted in the 1945 murder of Charles Walton
Working Cotton is a 1992 Caldecott Honor Book, [1] Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Illustration, [2] and an ALA Notable Book.It was written by Sherley Anne Williams and illustrated by Carole Byard.
Anne Turner may refer to: Anne Turner (murderer) (1576–1615), English maidservant convicted of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury; Anne Milton (born Anne Turner, 1955), British politician, MP and minister; Anne Turner allotments and playing fields, UK, home of the Cricket Club of North Ferriby; Anne Turner, a fictional character in Sheena ...
A native of Washington, D.C., Williams' early roles included Vivienne Choiseul in the October 1961 Naked City episode "Dead on the Field of Honor", [2] and Erica Brandt on the soap opera Young Doctor Malone from 1962 to 1963. [3] [4] Williams appeared on Broadway in 1963 as Frances Black in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore by Tennessee ...