Join us at our Writer’s Roundtable on October 25th for a convo with some of our best local authors! After 38 years as a university professor and administrator, Beverly began to write creative non-fiction in retirement. Five stories have appeared in “Voices from the Attic” published by Carlow University. In 2023, her book “Living while Black: My Experience with Everyday Racism” appeared. This book, a collection of vignettes, recounts events in her both her personal and professional life spanning more than 60 years. Each vignette is accompanied by discussion questions that encourage readers to think more critically about the event. Her most recent book “Mary Martin: Black Government-Girl,” published in January 2024, chronicles the early life of her mother. An African American girl born in southern Illinois, Mary aspired to a better life then could be realized in her small hometown. She joined 100,000 African Americans who traveled to the nation’s wartime capital in the 1940s to pursue their dreams. Despite the discrimination and Jim Crow laws, she encountered there, she achieved her goal. #oakmontcarnegielibrary
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