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About the Author
 Hello!
I am Glenda Jenkins Simmons, author of the new black history puzzle book,
African
American Heritage Pictures, Puzzles, and Word Games. Born in the Mississippi
Delta,
namely, rural Greenville, Mississippi, I grew up in a single-parent family, but
had much
love and support from grandparents, aunts, and uncles. I attended Greenville
Public
Schools and graduated from Greenville High School in 1979. I proceeded to the
University of Mississippi, where I received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.
Growing up on a farm as an only child, I became an avid puzzler. After all, with
no one to
play with, and the nearest neighbor living a mile “down the road,” I had lots of
time to
work puzzles, and I found them to be fun, challenging, and good vocabulary
builders.
Even as an adult, I still enjoy the challenge of a good puzzle.
Several years ago. I realized that in all my years of solving puzzles, I had
never run across
a puzzle book pertaining to subjects of African American heritage and history.
So I began
collecting information from many sources to create an educational and
entertaining book
to sharpen your wits on African American heritage and history. During my
research, I also
discovered that, even as an adult, there were so many great African Americans I
had never
heard of and their contributions to America and the world were invaluable in
shaping our
lifestyles and freedoms of today. Thus, this book was written with both
teenagers and
adults in mind. After years of hard work, I finally created my version of a
black puzzle
book—African American Heritage Pictures, Puzzles, and Word Games!
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