The HistoryMakers video oral history with Tonya W. Bolden.

Author Tonya Bolden was born on March 1, 1959 in New York City. Bolden graduated from the Chapin School, a private secondary school in Manhattan, in 1976. Bolden joined the Westside Repertory Theatre Group in 1977. She attended Princeton University and, in 1981, obtained her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University in Slavic languages and literature with a Russian focus. Bolden was hired as an editorial assistant to food and wine critic William E. Rice. In 1988, Bolden became an English instructor for Malcolm-King College. The following year, she worked as an English instructor at the College of New Rochelle School of New Resources. In 1990, Bolden wrote her first book, The Family Heirloom Cookbook. She published many works through the 1990s and 2000s-the latter decade was particularly prolific for Bolden's career. In 2008, she wrote George Washington Carver, a book which was published in conjunction with an exhibit on its subject in the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.

Shawn Wilson, interviewer.

Recorded New York, New York 2007 March 12.

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