About Joan E. Williams Books
Joan Williams hails from Jamaica and was educated in Canada, USA and Jamaica and holds a BSc in Economics. Her initial tertiary training was in computer programming but she decided very early that she preferred to work with humans and not machines. It was however hearing her late son, a music lover, using strange words and phrases that alerted to the new and ever evolving language being developed by the youth in her country. This sent her out on a quest to research and record the new language, thus leading to the birth of the Original Dancehall Dictionary in 1993. It was however her passion for writing that saw Ms. Williams becoming a columnist at one time or the other with all the daily publications in Jamaica as well as for the Miami based Caribbean Today and the Amnesty International magazine. Ms. Williams along with one of her mentor's, the late Anthony Abrahams, a former BBC broadcaster and Rhodes Scholar, developed the "Breakfast Club" which led to the revolution in morning talk radio in Jamaica. She was for almost two decades the alternative host for the popular radio talk show "Perkins on Line" and today she moderates her own programme "Joan Williams on Line." This is aired on Power 106 and heard worldwide at; http: //go-jamaica.com/power/ Ms. Williams has authored nine books to date, beginning with the popular "Back A Yard" series in the early nineties. This series of six was a satirical review of Jamaican politics. In 1995 she wrote the first "Tour Jamaica". The 4th edition was published in 2014 as an ebook. Her most recent publication, "Looking Back....... the struggle to preserve our freedoms" is now a Kindle ebook and gives an excellent overview of the period when there was an "undeclared civil war" in Jamaica in the 70's. The cold war had spilled over to the small island of Jamaica forcing Ms. Williams to become an active participant in politics at that time. Although concentrating on writing, Ms. Williams finds time to be active grandmother in the lives of her two grand kids, Shadrach and Madelynn; an accomplished artist; an avid cyclist and explorer of the great outdoors and a world traveler.
