Sharon m. draper biography

Sharon Draper is an Americanauthor, poet, and master educator. She has won many awards for teaching and written many books, poems, and short stories.

She was a teacher in Cincinnati from and became an author in , which is the career she is currently pursuing. Her first piece was “One Small Torch”, a short story published in the Ebony magazine in as the winner of a short story contest with 20, entries.

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In her writing, she choses African-American male characters to give a voice to African-American young men.

Early life

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Sharon Draper was born on August 21, in Cleveland, Ohio. With 2 siblings, she was the eldest daughter of three kids in her family and grew up in a close-knit neighborhood.

Education

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Sharon Draper earned her BA from Pepperdine University in and her MA from Miami University of Ohio in

Teaching career

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Sharon Draper was a teacher for the Cincinnati public schools from