Sheri Booker

Sheri Booker marubuciya ce 'yar Amurka, mawaƙiya, mai zane-zanen kalmomi, kuma malamar makaranta. Ita ce marubucin littafin Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home, wani tarihin rayuwa game da shekaru kusan goma da ta yi tana aiki a wani gidan jana'iza na cikin gari a West Baltimore.   Bayan buga littafin, ta lashe kyautar NAACP Image Award a cikin rukunin "Outstanding Literary Work from a Debut Author." An zaɓe ta don kyautar Hurston/Wright Legacy Award ta 2014 a cikin rukunin labarai marasa tushe. 

 Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
Booker ta girma a Baltimore, Maryland. Ta fara aiki a Wylie Funeral Home da ke West Baltimore a shekarar 1997, lokacin tana da shekaru 15, wani ɓangare na aikinta shi ne taimaka mata ta jure baƙin cikinta bayan mutuwar goggon ta. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, an gano mahaifiyarta tana da cutar myeloma mai yawa.

Booker ta halarci Jami'ar Notre Dame ta Maryland, inda ta sami digiri na farko a fannin kimiyyar siyasa. Ta sami digiri na biyu a fannin kirkirar labarai daga Kwalejin Goucher .

 Sana'a 
A lokacin da take karatun digirin digiri na biyu, Booker ta fara rubuta tarihin rayuwarta, Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home, wanda aka buga a shekarar 2013.  Sauran ayyukanta da aka buga sun haɗa da One Woman, One Hustle (2003) da kuma littafin bidiyo mai suna I Am the Poem (2011).   A shekarar 2007, ta zauna a Afirka ta Kudu, inda ta taimaka wajen koyar da matasan mata 'yan Afirka dabarun aikin jarida kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar edita a wata mujallar adabi ta duniya.   

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