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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.
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.
Eliseus Williams (1867–1926, Wales, p), bardic name Eifion Wyn Emmett Williams (1925–2007, US/Germany, p) Frederick Smeeton Williams (1829–1886, England, nf)
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; Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), author of Our Nig and the first African-American novelist
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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.
Maxie Solters, a publicist, writer, actor and producer well-known to the entertainment community, died unexpectedly on Thursday. No cause of death was announced; she was 37. Born in 1987 and ...
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 alternatively defines freedom and agency from a female character's perspective, using distinct literary techniques. Williams broke free of ...