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Sheila Williams

Biography

Sheila Williams

Sheila Williams is the author of six books, including THINGS PAST TELLING, THE SECRET WOMEN and DANCING ON THE EDGE OF THE ROOF, the basis for the Netflix film Juanita. She is the librettist for the opera "Fierce," commissioned by The Cincinnati Opera, with music by William Menefield, which premiered in July 2022. She lives in northern Kentucky.

Sheila Williams

Books by Sheila Williams

No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion
by Sheila Williams - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Dorothy Thom joins the Women’s Army Corps. Women from all levels of society work together to navigate a military segregated by race and gender. In early 1945, Dorothy and 800 African American WACs cross the turbulent North Atlantic to their post in England. Their orders are to process the mail sent to GIs from their loved ones back home. They arrive to find mail stockpiled for over two years in warehouses and airplane hangars. Many pieces are in poor condition, and the names are illegible. In England and France, the WACs traverse a landscape of unimagined possibilities. With their outlooks changed forever, they return to the United States as the catalysts for change in America and build lives that transcend anything their ancestors ever dreamed of.