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Sherley Anne Williams

Born

in Bakersfield, California, The United States

August 25, 1944

Died

July 06, 1999

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Sherley Anne Williams (August 25, 1944 – July 6, 1999) 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. When she was little her family picked cotton in order to get money. At the age of eight her father died of tuberculosis and when she was sixteen her mother died. She graduated from Thomas Alva Edison High School in Fresno California in 1962. In 1966 she earned her bachelor's degree in English at what is now California State University at Fresno and she received her master's degree at Brown University in 1972. The following year (1973) she became a professor of English Literature at the Universi ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 5,928 ratings · 380 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dessa Rose 3.80 avg rating — 1,010 ratings — published 1986 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Working Cotton by Sherley Anne Williams, Carole Byard (Illustrator) 3.91 avg rating — 766 ratings — published 1992 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Peacock Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series) 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girls Together by Sherley Anne Williams, Synthia Saint James (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations) 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some one sweet angel chile 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Giving Birth to Brightness: A Thematic Study in Neo-Black Literature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	WORKING COTTON by Sherley Anne Williams, Carole Byard - Ill. (Illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dessa Rose by Sherley Anne Williams (1986-07-01) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By Sherley Anne Williams - Working Cotton (1997-02-16) [Perfect Paperback] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dess Rose 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There's no earthly use in bein too-ga-tha if it don't put some joy in yo life.”
― Sherley Anne Williams

tags: the-house-of-desire

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“Everyone thought because she was so too-ga-tha she didn't feel pain and the men she went with felt the same.”
― Sherley Anne Williams

tags: the-house-of-desire

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“Now,' Kaine say, 'now this man free, bo'n free, but still, any white man what say he a slave be believed cause a nigga can't talk fo the laws, not ginst no white man, not even fo his own self.”
― Sherley Anne Williams

tags: african-americans, blacks, race, race-relations, slavery, slaves, whites

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January 2022 Group Read: Classic AA Fiction (80s Edition).

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The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker

18 votes 30.0%

Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor

13 votes 21.7%

A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines

12 votes 20.0%

Dessa Rose by Sherley Anne Williams

7 votes 11.7%

Through the Ivory Gate by Rita Dove

5 votes 8.3%

The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley

5 votes 8.3%

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