Sophie Washington and Beyond: How One Author Built a 175,000 Book Legacy/Tonya Ellis
It started in a library. A little girl. Her mother beside her. A bag overflowing with books.
That little girl fell in love with reading before she could fully sound out the letters. She won a young author's competition in fifth grade and made a decision she never walked back. At fourteen she was published in her hometown newspaper and received her first check for something she wrote. And then Maya Angelou came to her college — and in a car ride from the airport told her it took a year to write I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
Something clicked. She could do this.
Tonya Ellis became a…
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