About
Sharon M. Draper was born in Cleveland, Ohio in August 21, 1952.
She went to Ghana years ago and was overwhelmed by the beauty of the land and people, as well as the history of the place that hovered just out of reach. When I visited where thousands of Africans were housed like cattle before being shipped as cargo and sold as slaves, I felt their spirits crying out to me. When I crawled on my hands and knees through the "door of no return," which led from the darkness of the prison to the unintelligible vastness of a beach, I knew I had to tell the story of just one of those who had passed that way.