Nicole Bailey-Williams
By APOOO • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: In the Limelight •
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Nicole Bailey-Williams is a high school English teacher, a freelance writer, and former host of “The literary Review,” a book review show which aired from April 1998 to May 2007 on WDAS (1480 AM). In addition to writing for national publications like Publishers Weekly, Black Issues Book Review, and QBR (Quarterly Black Review), she was a contributing writer in the Notable Black American Men (Gale) reference book, Brown Sugar 2: Great One Night Stands (January 2003-Plume), Proverbs for the People (June 2003-Kensington), and Gumbo (December 2002-Harlem Moon). She was also commissioned by the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry to write a biography of William P. Young, Pennsylvania’s first African American Secretary of Labor and Industry, a project which was completed in 2001.
Bailey-Williams received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Hampton University in 1993, where she authored a cum laude thesis entitled The Grotesque in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Beloved. Hampton is also the place where she met the love of her life, her husband Gregory, whom she married in 1997. In 1995, she received her Master of Education degree from Temple University. She has presented educational workshops on Multiple Intelligences and English Education and she participated in renowned scholar Arnold Rampersad’s seminar in African-American Studies at Princeton University.
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Bailey-William’s latest novel, The Love Child’s Revenge, is APOOO’s November BOM. Provided below is a book description. If the description entices you, please feel free to pick up the book and join us the fourth Sunday for our book discussion.
The Love Child’s Revenge : Claudia “Peach” Fryar is a vixen. Born to a mother who works as a domestic for the Harrisons, an affluent African American family who resides in Philadelphia’s East Oak Lane section, Claudia has felt like an outsider all of her life. She’s chubby, she stutters, and she grows up with her nose pressed against the windowpane, peering in on the lives of the privileged Harrison girls. It’s not enough that they grew up attending elite events and holding membership in exclusive clubs, but the matriarch of the Harrison clan seems to revel in torturing young Claudia. Why? Her husband, the respectable Louis Harrison, is young Claudia’s father also. When he dies, Claudia’s mother is fired, and the two are virtually run out of town, oblivious to the fact that Louis has made provisions in his will to take care of his “love child.” When Claudia returns to Philadelphia years later after learning that she’s been cheated out of her share of wealth, she’s full of venom with an ax to grind. She’s vowed to get revenge for every privilege that she’s been denied, and she’ll stop at nothing to get it.
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