ABOUT THE AUTHORS
William Howard was born in New York City where he earned his Bachelors Degree from the City College of New York. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, its School of Social Service Administration, and from the University’s Division of Social Sciences. The author has been researching and writing about his maternal and paternal family since the late 1980s. He has traveled to Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and parts of the Americas to photograph and to visit sites important to his ancestry. He now lives in Chicago.