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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.
Shirley Jane Turner (28 January 1961 – 18 August 2003) was a Canadian-American daughter of a U.S. serviceman and local woman from St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador. She was raised with three siblings in Wichita, Kansas , but moved to Newfoundland with her mother after her parents separated ; the parents later divorced.
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.
John Turner (12 August 1947 – 1 May 2002), known professionally as John Nathan-Turner, was an English television producer.He was the ninth producer of the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who and the final producer of the series' first run on television (from 1980 until it was cancelled in 1989).
Shirley was a well-used name throughout the Anglosphere during the 20th century. It was among the top 1,000 names used for newborn American girls between 1880 and 2008. It was among the top 100 names between 1918 and 1963 in the United States, and among the ten most popular names for American girls between 1927 and 1941.