Profiles

Chapter Excerpt

Welcome to Frances’s Place.  

Whenever I relate stories about Frances E. Williams, one of the first questions I’m asked is, “Who is Frances?” These pages will not only tell you a bit more about this fascinating lady, who stood at the crossroads of some of the most intriguing and turbulent times in our history, but also will invite you into her world, a world peopled with well-known as well as lesser-known African Americans, folks like Paul Robeson, Charlotta Bass, Langston Hughes, and Margaret Bonds. Frances knew them all personally.

This site will profile some of these exceptional individuals, and include some of Frances’s favorite anecdotes. Ruminations looks at Frances's film career including work on her biography. Treasures from the Shelf offers book reviews of works from the recent and not so recent past written by African Americans. A chapter excerpt from Frances’s biography is included along with a page about the author.