About the AuthorBessie Frazier was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received her B.A. degree from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, in English and Sociology. She received her M.A. degree from Montclair State College in Education. She completed Post Graduate work at Brooklyn College and New York University.She is a teacher in the New York City Public School System and presently teaching at middle school 143 in Brooklyn, "The School of Performing and Fine Arts.Bessie Frazier is the author of "Exciting Stories and Plays" (Vantage Press, 2000), "Climb That Barbed Wire Fence" (Sterling Publisher, 1992), and "Poems, Short Stories, and Plays For Youth" (Exposition Press, 1980). She has won writing awards and has been published in several anthologies. what is a book talk examples Entertaining Stories