1) I had the good fortune to be born poor, black and female to teenage parents in the Commonwealth of VA just pass the middle of the 20th century. 2) I had the additional luck of loving history, a good story and a good book. 3) In the 9th grade my English teacher, Eileen Rowe realized that I was a writer and encouraged me. 4) I graduated from Penn where I was exposed to writers like Philip Roth, Carolos Fuentes, Sonia Sanchez and Kristin Hunter and, of course, wrote a brilliant and still unpublished 1st novel entitled, "Shadow Portraits". |
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