A First Time Author Says. . .

I've always believed to be a writer, one must be a reader also.  From mastering our first grade reader at Wilson Elementary School, in Zanesville, Ohio, I’ve read and read.    Perhaps that was encouragement enough for me to think I could write a book. 

As I began assembling my writing and building my book, Black Star Girl, I added more to my library of completed books.   In other words, I read more, as I drew near to having a book of my own published.

Here are several that energized me in one way or another as I labored day and night.

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

           By Caroline Kennedy

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Haunted by Africa by Robert Montrose Waite

Daddy Big Bucks by Robert Waite

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

A Reporter’s Life by Walter Cronkite

Black Boy by Richard Wright

In the Foothills of Medicine by Robert C. McKersie

My Life by Bill Clinton

Civil Rights Childhood by Jordana Y. Shakoor
Don’t Block the Blessings by Patti Labelle

Barbara Jordan by Mary Beth Rogers

Family Wisdom by Howard G. Adams, PhD

Elston and Me by Arlene Howard with Ralph Winbush

african american essays

                 by Gerald Early; Randall Kennedy 

Sarah Palin Going Rogue by Sarah Palin

The Poetry of Robert Frost

                        edited by Edward Connery Latham

If you’re looking to read one and cannot find it, just let me know.

I’ll be back with you Monday.  Have a lovely weekend.