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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Barbara Summers </b> is a fine example of someone who has opened the unusual door to challenge, adventure, and success. The second of five children, she was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with honors in her major, French literature, completed coursework for a doctoral degree in French at Yale, and spent time studying at the Sorbonne in France.

<p>For seventeen years, she was a model at the prestigious Ford Agency and was able to draw upon this experience for her groundbreaking book, Black and Beautiful: How Women of Color Changed the Fashion Industry. She also edited the bestselling, I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America and penned the short story collection, Nouvelle Soul.

<p>Summers has taught French, English and journalism and currently teaches English Composition at a CUNY institution. She lives in New York City and is at work on a novel about the Harlem Renaissance. 



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