Bonnie Taylor Williams

  • Bonnie Taylor Williams

    A Survivor

    Bonnie Taylor Williams
  • Bonnie Taylor-Williams

    African American Arts Alliance of Chicago

    2014-2015

    Black Excellence Award Winner

    Bonnie Taylor-Williams
  • With These Hands is an inspiring story of the life of Selena, who as a young girl in 1941 arrived in the big windy City of Chicago on a bus from Memphis Tennessee by way of Clarksdale Mississippi with all that she owned in her two hands.

  • Bonnie Taylor-Williams

    African American Arts Alliance of Chicago

    2014-2015

    Black Excellence Award Winner

    Bonnie Taylor-Williams

    If You're Above Ground You're On Top... If You Can Look Up You Can Get Up! Keep Getting Up!!!

    About Me

    The Art of Storytelling Bonnie Taylor-Williams to Literary Success

    A twenty-plus years cancer survivor, a professional third generation Hair WEEV technician, designer and instructor credits her mother for igniting her love for reading. Bonnie’s mother began sitting Bonnie and her brothers at the kitchen table and walking them to the neighborhood

    Chicago public library instilling the importance of reading at a very early age. Unwilling to completely rely on her children’s school teachers and they had great teachers at Dixon elementary……

    A true story about the author's grandmother, from her beginning and upbringing in Clarksdale, Mississippi, to her travels to Chicago, where she settles down and opens her hair salon and evens teaches a new technique to other cosmetologist's.

    Shannan Harper

    Reader

    I started to read this book and was immediately captivated by the main character. It's beautifully and truthfully written so much so that I could easily envision this as a mini series. A true piece of Chicago Americana awaits you!

    Kat

    Reader

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