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Sheila Williams is the award-winning author of several acclaimed novels, including No Better Time, Things Past Telling, The Secret Women, Girls Most Likely, The Shade of My Own Tree, On the Right Side of a Dream, and Dancing on the Edge of the Roof—the inspiration for the Netflix film Juanita, starring Alfre Woodard. Her most recent novel, No Better Time, is an engrossing historical tale that shines a light on the little-known story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion—the only unit comprised entirely of women of color to serve overseas during World War II. The book was named a February 2024 “Books We Can’t Wait to Read” pick by The Root, a Black History Month selection by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and a BookSparks Book Club pick. Williams’s 2022 novel Things Past Telling was a New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Pick and a Washington Post “10 Noteworthy Books for March” selection. It also earned spots on Bookworm’s Best Books of 2022 list and Book-ish’s “Books by Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read.” Her previous novel, The Secret Women, was featured as a top beach read by TIME, Woman’s World, Parade, and more in the summer of 2020. In addition to her fiction, Sheila Williams is also a librettist. Fierce, her original opera created in collaboration with composer Dr. William Menefield, made its world premiere at Cincinnati Opera in July 2022. Inspired by the lives of Cincinnati-area teenage girls, the production was developed with community partners WordPlay Cincy, The Music Resource Center–Cincinnati, and i.imagine. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Sheila now lives in northern Kentucky. She continues to write stories that explore the complexities of identity, resilience, sisterhood, and self-discovery.
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    • A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion
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