daughter of a daughter of a queen by sarah bird

Her chance at freedom presents itself with the arrival of Union general Phillip Henry “Smash ‘em Up” Sheridan, the outcast of West Point who takes the rawboned, prideful young woman into service. According to her mother, she was a captive, destined by her noble warrior blood to escape the enemy. Though born into bondage on a “miserable tobacco farm” in Little Dixie, Missouri, Cathy Williams was never allowed to consider herself a slave. “Here’s the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of queen and my mama never let me forget it.” A new novel, How Perfect Is That, was published by Knopf in June 2008.The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the only woman to ever serve with the legendary Buffalo Soldiers. She has also written screenplays for the National Geographic Channel and Hallmark, as well as the CBS movie Yesterday's Children.Īnother novel, The Flamenco Academy, came out in 2006. Virgin of the Rodeo was published in 1999.īird was named Austin's best author in 2001 by the Austin Chronicle, the year she also published The Yokota Officers Club, a novel that draws on her experiences as military brat. In addition to novels, Bird has written screenplays for television and magazine articles for national women's magazines.

The Boyfriend School and The Mommy Club, published by Ballantine in 19, respectively, were both humorous novels drawing on Bird's life experiences. īird wrote the screenplay for the movie Don't Tell Her It's Me (1990, starring Shelley Long and Steve Guttenberg), adapting the Boyfriend School novel. She published five contemporary romance novels with Silhouette under the pseudonym 'Tory Cates'. In 1986, her comic novel Alamo House was published based on her experience as a graduate student at the University of Texas. The family lives in Austin, Texas.ĭuring the mid-1980s, Bird was a founding contributing-editor to Austin's Third Coast Magazine, for which she wrote numerous feature and humor articles.īird's first published novel was Do Evil Cheerfully, a mystery (as Sarah McCabe Bird).

She is married to George Jones, and has one son, Gabriel Bird-Jones, born in 1989. Moving to the University of Texas at Austin, she went on to receive an MA in journalism there in 1976.

She attended the University of New Mexico, earning a BA there in 1973. Sarah's mother recognized signs of her daughter's creative storytelling talent as young as kindergarten. Her father was an officer in the US Air Force, and her family (a 'Catholic family of eight' ), including her mother, Colista Bird, travelled with him around the US and the world during her childhood. She was born in 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sarah Bird is an American novelist, screenwriter, and journalist.

Daughter of a daughter of a queen by sarah bird