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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……
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!
Reader
With These Hands: A Country Girl Takes the Town is the sequel, part two of the trilogy that began with the award-winning debut, With These Hands: A Country Girl Came to Town.
This book continues Selena’s story as a country girl who came from the depths of the Mississippi migration and transitioned into a Chicago sensation in the beauty and hair weev industry. Selena not only became a household name in the city of Chicago, but her reputation spread worldwide as the Hair Weev Queen and the Weev Doctor, servicing clients from the U.S. to Africa (Nigeria and Ghana) and teaching the money-making craft of Hair Weev Technology to students internationally.
Not only were her mother and her three children involved, but this installment also continues the story as it expands to include her grandchildren, generations of beauty and Hair Weev Technology birthed through a country girl’s dream.
Read how Selena successfully branded herself and her businesses as a safe haven, a source of inspiration and inclusion, while securing her financial freedom (“her bag”) and teaching other cosmetology enthusiasts to do the same…all before cell phones and the internet.
Proving that when there’s a will, God will make a way.
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Sept, 2026
Printers Row Lit Fest
- Saturday, September 12, - Sunday September 13, 2026 10:00am-6:00pm
- South Dearborn and Polk Streets in Chicago IL
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.