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About the Author

Author Info

Sheridan Brown is a certified schoolteacher, principal, and educational leader. Having minored in music in college, the arts have always been a central force in her life. During living history reenactments at Booker T. Washington National Monument, she discovered Viola Knapp Ruffner.

Ms. Brown was born in Tennessee and raised in small towns of southwest Virginia. She practiced her profession in Virginia, Massachusetts, and Florida. She holds a postgraduate degree in School Leadership. Upon retirement she began volunteering, painting, writing, researching, and traveling with her husband attorney John Crawford. She has one son, Tony Hume. She is a GiGi to Aiden and Lucy. She has returned to the Blue Ridge to live and explore.

Available for virtual and in person book talks.

News

> May 11, 2024: 10-3 Book Signing, Trinity Ecumenical Parish, SMAC EXPO

> April 13, 2024: 10-3 Book Signing Shop at the Nines, Wirtz, VA

> February 4, 2024:
2 PM, Smith Mountain Lake State Park

>October 11, 2023: 11 AM, Waterfront Women Presentation

>June 15, 2023: 1 PM, BTWNM, BUMC Presentation

>June 13, 2023: 6 PM SML Book Club-private 

> Thursday April 20, 2023: Moneta, VA Public Library 5:30 Presentation and book signing.

>Thursday February 16 5:30pm: Book talk and signing at Franklin County Public Library, Rocky Mount, VA

>November 14, 2022: Presentation to Newcomers Club of Smith Mountain Lake Virginia

> October 29, 2022: Book Signing Booker T. Washington National Monument: at 11 AM and 2 PM “The Viola Factor


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Events

A Reading Group Guide is included in the second edition of THE VIOLA FACTOR. In addition, family tree descriptions are given to better help you locate the Knapp and Ruffner families.

If you would like free bookmarks or to contact the author for virtual or in person presentations, pleae email violafactor@gmail.com

Thank you!

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