Mary Oluonye

Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor, Entrepreneur, Millionaire (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Notable Life Series reflects America's rich cultural diversity by introducing young readers to important, noteworthy historical and contemporary men and women of different ethnic heritages. Young readers get an overview of the person's life and learn how they were shaped by the circumstances and times in which they lived or live. Children gain an understanding of how these men and women set goals, faced challenges, and accomplished their goals through hard work, persistence and faith in themselves.

"Mary Oluonye brings Madam Walker's story to life in a way that will inspire young readers to follow their own dreams for success." A"Lelia Bundles, Madam Walker biographer and great-great-granddaughter

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mary Oluonye
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311376497
• Artikelnr.: 74350131

Autorenporträt

About Me:

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio. By the age of six months, I was making the first of many trips between Nigeria and America. In fact, by the time I was five, I had already traveled back and forth about three times. My elementary and middle school years were spent some years in America, and other years in Nigeria. I graduated from Walt Whitman High school in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and from the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. After university, I returned to Nigeria where I worked for a while at a major university, got married, and later moved back to America. I currently live in Ohio, USA.
I come from a family of voracious readers. For as long as I can remember, my parents made sure that every home in which we lived, had a library stocked with "good reads." The long months of the Nigerian rainy season (March to mid-October, with a month long break from the rain in August) would find me, my four sisters and one brother, each in our own bedroom happily reading all day. This, I must say, is one of my favorite memories.
As a Nigerian-American, living in two different countries and cultures was a great way to grow up. It made me very interested in learning about different people and places, and respectful of people and their cultures and traditions. Even as a young person, I realized that when people are not informed, they can often develop wrong, or pre-conceived beliefs and attitudes about people and customs different from themselves. So, it is no surprise that the first book I wrote was about Nigeria, followed by books on South Africa and Madagascar. Then I took a long break from writing books, but continued writing articles and book reviews. In 2008, I wrote a biography about African-American inventor, Garrett Augustus Morgan, Garrett Augustus Morgan: Businessman, Inventor, Good Citizen, and in 2010 co-wrote a book with Virginia K. Schoelch, The Day The Library Didn't Open, about Daylight Savings Time. Madam C.J. Walker: Inventor, Entrepreneur, Millionaire, published as an ebook in 2014, is my latest book and the first book in my A Notable Life series.
Nowadays, I work as a children's services associate at the Shaker Heights Public Library in Ohio, and because I love reading so much, I frequently review children's and young adult/teen books and audiobooks for School Library Journal.
And of course, I continue to write ....