award-winning author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jerlean S. Noble is the visionary and President of the Columbia Writers Alliance. She is a 30-year retiree of the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina. She is a published author with 14 published books, 3 of which are in the Richland County Library. Originally from Greenville, SC, she has made Columbia her home for the last 46 years. She is an entrepreneur now with three companies: JS Noble Books, For Your Namesake Productions, and Columbia Writers Alliance.

She loves cooking, teaching, sharing, and believing in the gifts of others. She believes in promoting, networking, and lifting the spirits of others through literature. Of the nine books she's written, "Big Mama and Me" is still her favorite. She was selected as a contributing editor in the Writer's Net Anthology of Prose, Vol. 1, edited by Gary D. Kessler, and was recently published as a contributing author in the anthology, Poets Respond to Race, edited by Al Black and Dr. Len Lawson. Her latest novel is Benson's Bloodline to Freedom's Trail, published in 2021.

Ms. Noble says, “Recently, my love of Genealogy led me to deep research of my ancestors. Spurred on by my Great Grandmother’s Sister-in-law, Aunt Georgia Hallums, who put in my hand the last will and testament of the slave owner, Richard Hallum, I went for it. Out of it came my last two complete novels to date. Mind you, at 74, I’m still writing

Her last two novels are family memoirs, Benson’s Bloodline to Freedom’s Trail and the sequel, Beyond the Lies of Freedom. She was recently blessed with winning the International literary award from the African American Historical and Genealogical Society for Benson’s Bloodline to Freedom’s Trail. For the same title, she also received a Congressional Commendation letter for leadership, presented by SC Representative Chandra Dillard.

However, now, she gets to celebrate the completion of her 5th novel, “Double Jeopardy,” a sequel to her first novel, “Tin Can: The Slitting Edge.” Double Jeopardy is her first mystery/thriller novel.