Close Up Radio to Highlight Author and Retired Educator Barbara A. Pierce

WHITE PLAINS, NY - Barbara A. Pierce is an author and retired teacher who has achieved many strides in her lifetime. She has published 16 books that span genres and age ranges. She earned a BS in Education and a Master's degree in Education and Reading. She started teaching in 1968 and continued for 35 years, then worked as a substitute just after retirement in the early 2000s. She's received honors from The Mount Vernon Parent Teachers Association and an Editor's Choice Award given by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry. Recently, one of her earlier books drew the attention of Netflix, an honor any writer would get most excited about. (A movie is now in the works.)

"I believe providing all children with the best education possible is of the utmost importance. I'd like to think I was a beacon of light and a source of inspiration for all of my students!"

Barbara has a special enthusiasm for children of color, helping them to realize they are no less powerful, intelligent, or entitled than any other culture. In fact, her three-book volume of work in the nonfiction genre are about Black Trailblazers who changed the course of history, and at a time when adversity only served to fuel their dreams. In her Remembering Our Black Trailblazers and their Legacies series each has 34 mini biographies of extraordinary Black Americans like Langston Hughes, Thurgood Marshall, Jesse Owens, Madam CJ Walker, Marian Anderson, Ida B Wells, and Louis H Latimer. Book-III includes modern icons like Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama. The individuals listed are just a few, there is still a much greater number of brave unsung heroes.

"I am very passionate about my writing and my books. I go at it like a cat, my books are my legacies!"