Ealing Author Gets Inventive for Black History Month
Joy James to be doing story time sessions based on her new book
Joy James
October 12, 2023
An children’s author from Ealing will be reading from her books as part of a series of events to celebrate Black History Month.
Joy James has written about black inventors throughout history and will be telling their stories at local libraries.
Joy says that although none of her featured inventors has associations with Ealing, the story time sessions of her newly publish book Marvellous Black Inventors will include 16 inventors, including Winston Simon who invented the ping pong steel pan which he first played at the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival and then brought it to the UK as well as Lanny Smoot who created many of the amazing special effects at the Disney theme parks using lights and technology and Gladys West who was only recently discovered to be the mathematician behind the work that led to the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Joy has lived in the Ealing area since the eighties and had enjoyed writing since she was at primary school, but it was only later in life that she considered becoming an author. She decided to write about black role models when her children were younger and her research led her to the work of many black inventors who had previously been mainly overlooked. She finished the first book in the series in 2019 and now has published six aimed at different age groups.
She will be at Southall Library (112 The Green Southall UB2 4BQ) from 11am to noon on Friday 27 October and then at Northolt Library (Church Road Northolt UB5 5AS) the same day from 2-3pm.
Admission is free but click on the links above for each event to register your place.
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