Ruth P. Watson

May 9, 2024 | eurweb.com | Fisher Jack |Ruth P. Watson

*While the intense rivalry between Kendrick Lamar and Drake has captivated the hip-hop world, Questlove remains unenthused, as is Ice Cube, surprisingly. Questlove, The Roots’ renowned drummer, expressed his discontent in an Instagram post, calling into question the very lifeblood of hip-hop. He took issue with the personal nature of their lyrical joust, which involved family members and baseless, salacious claims within their diss tracks. “Nobody won the war. This wasn’t about skill.

Feb 23, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Ruth P. Watson

Historical reminders are all around us. Historical fiction is a story that takes readers to a time and place in the past. I use plots and settings to remind us of historical events. My novels are set in a culturally recognizable time. (The Art of Mixing Fact and Fiction in Historical Novels.)My first three books took place in the post-World War I time frame. My goal was to research this period in which we hear very little about. World War I (the Great War) is a period we consider mysterious.

Jul 3, 2023 | ajc.com | Leah Tyler |Ruth P. Watson

Maggie Walker was the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first female in the United States to own a bank — one of few to survive the Great Depression. Born in Virginia one year before the end of the Civil War, Walker smashed every barrier constraining Black women in the Jim Crow South. Her extensive contributions to the formation of Richmond’s “Black Wall Street” are brought to vivid life in “A Right Worthy Woman,” Ruth P.

Jun 16, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Ruth P. Watson |Colleen Hoover

by Ruth P. Watson ‧ A stirring fictional account of a remarkable figure that’s occasionally hampered by wooden prose. Watson chronicles more than 50 years in the extraordinary life of Maggie Lena Walker, the first Black woman to charter an American bank. When she’s 12, narrator Maggie Mitchell finds her life upended when her father is found floating facedown in the James River in Richmond, Virginia.

May 15, 2023 | offtheshelf.com | Chris Gaudio |Brinda Charry |Ruth P. Watson |Abraham Verghese

|+| Add to Your Shelf The East Indian Chris’s Pick #1: Tony is just eleven when his mother dies in their native India in the 1600s. Since he’s left alone, a family friend secures him passage to London, where he finds work on the docks and spends his free time watching performances of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.