"an Inspirational Writer"
My name is Sarah Bracey White, and I've been a writer since I was 12 years old. Join me on a journey through my world. In these pages, you'll learn about my life as a poor little Colored girl who grew up in the Jim Crow community of Sumter, SC, in the 1960s who has since made a home — and a respected name for herself — in Westchester County, NY.
My journey has been an excursion
through high mountains and low valleys.
Education, life experience, and friendship have sustained me.
Now, I turn to look back in search of the meaning of all that has happened.
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My Pride and Joy
The publication of Primary Lessons: A Memoir by CavanKerry Press, Ltd. in 2013 was a watershed moment for me. I'm very proud of this book, and I'd like to share it with you. If you would like me to speak at an event or your book club, or you'd like a signed copy of my memoir, please contact me by phone or email. Primary Lessons was recently staged as "Transcendence," a dramatic musical, featuring me in the starring role!
Get Your Copy Today
Paperback copies and Kindle editions are available at CavanKerry Press and Amazon. You can also purchase a hard copy at The Village Bookstore in Pleasantville, NY. I'd like to express my gratitude to everyone who has purchased a book or requested that their local library purchase one. Special appreciation goes to those readers who posted reviews on Amazon or Good Reads!
Get In Touch With Me To schedule a visit to your book club (live or virtual)
Literary Works
Aside from being a writer of memoirs, poetry, and essays, I'm also a motivational speaker and arts consultant. I was a 2010/2011 Inaugural Fellow at the Writers Center at SUNY Purchase. Here are some of my literary works.
Playwriting is my newest writing challenge!
I’m now writing plays! In 2022, I joined Ossining's Westchester Collaborative Theater which staged a piece from my memoir in their 2021 festival for new playwrights. I immediately submitted "Something to Remember Him By" for lab review. After hearing real actors read my lines, I went back to the drawing board and fleshed out the story I was trying to tell into a full-fledged play. It had three SRO showings the last week-end in September 2023.
My play "Something to Remember Him By" was staged "in the box" at Westchester Collaborative Theater September 29- October 1, 2023. A cast of five, including a Spirit of the dead man in the casket on stage, brought a father's funeral to life and elicited tears and laughter (and a brief audience sing-along when a daughter begins to sing a song her father sang when she was a little girl.) The three standing-room-only shows inspired me to keep writing when audience members raved about the play and asked for more!
My Essays Have Been Anthologized In:
- Children of the Dream, Simon & Schuster Pocket Books, 1999
- Dreaming in Color, Living in Black and White, Simon Pulse, 2003
- Aunties: Thirty-Five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother, Ballantine Books, 2004
- Gardening At A Deeper Level, Garden House Press, 2004
- Heartscapes: True Stories of Remembered Love, Spruce Mountain Press, 2012
- Places We Return To, CavanKerry Press, 2020
- Mothers, Martyrs and Jezebels, Black Lawrence Press, 2024
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