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About the Author and Her Work Gertrude Richmond Anderson Prologue What more could be said about the author - Gertrude R. Anderson, other than she is a believer in the power of words? She interprets things well. Anderson's love of reading, writing, and music was encouraged by her fifth grade teacher in the classrooms of the Chicago Public Schools. She earned a degree in Elementary Education from Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She began a career teaching in the Head-Start Program, and eventually the Mississippi Public Schools. She said that reading was her favorite hobby. "There is