Author to Author

 

What a pleasure to recently meet fellow author (and tennis enthusiast!) Angela Williams, who in 2014 published her excellent and enlightening memoir “Hush Now, Baby.” (Amazon sale site here)

We connected during the summer and decided to meet in person. At a Mt. Pleasant Starbucks, we had a long chat and exchanged and signed our books for each other. (link here to my latest)

Angela is a longtime educator and retired English professor and writing lab director at The Citadel. She grew up in Berkeley County where three generations of her family founded and owned Williams Farm Supply in Moncks Corner. 

From her birth to her wedding day, Angela had a very close, supportive and loving relationship with her family’s live-in nanny/housekeeper/cook Eva Aiken. 

When we met I told Angela her book reminded me of the popular 2011 film, “The Help” which depicts the lives of Black women working at White family homes in Mississippi in the 1950s-1960s. 

Angela told me that the movie triggered her to write “Hush Now, Baby” because the film was nothing like her own experience. 

I recently completed this fine book. Angela provides such interesting details about her life in the Lowcountry from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s. 

In my book, her book is a five star read! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️