Sherley Anne Williams: American Poet, Novelist and Social Critic

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Sherley Anne Williams: American Poet, Novelist and Social Critic

Sherley Anne Williams was an African-American poet, novelist, professor and social critic. Many of her works tell stories about her life in the African-American community. Williams was born in Bakersfield, California. At the age of eight her father died of tuberculosis and when she was sixteen her mother died. She graduated from Thomas Alva Edison […]

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