Book of Awesome Women Writers

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Becca Anderson. Book of Awesome Women Writers

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“I read a little from this book each day as there is so much information packed in here. I had no idea that the first recorded writer in human history was a woman! I am learning so much from this and it is written in a delightfully entertaining way. I am inspired!”

—Varla Ventura, author of Sheroes

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Our Nig was ignored by reviewers and readers and barely sold. Wilson’s work was in the dustbin of lost history until Henry Louis Gates, Jr., discovered it and reissued it in 1983. Gates observed that the provocative title probably contributed to the novel’s near oblivion. The plot, a marriage between a white woman and a Black man, would have alienated many readers.

Example rendered her words efficacious. Day by day there was a manifest change of deportment toward “Nig.”

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