Celebrating Hotchclaw   retails for $17.  To order send check to:  A&M Books P.O. Box 283    Rehoboth Beach , DE 19971     or contact us by e-mail at  AandMPublishers@aol.com. Alice Walker,  author of The Color Purple  wrote of Ann Allen Shockley’s novel  Loving Her,   “in its exploration of a daring subject boldly shared. (the novel)….enables us to  see and understand,  perhaps for the first time,  the choices certain women  have made about  how they will live their lives…”

Celebrating Hotchclaw  by Ann Allen Shockley. Shockley is the author of the groundbreaking and now classic 1974 novel Loving Her.      In this contemporary work, Shockley introduces Hotchclaw, an historically Black College. The school is a survivor among the many small southern colleges that came into being after slavery to promote higher education for Black students in an era of segregation. Although struggling with financial difficulties, Hotchclaw is ready to celebrate its one hundredth anniversary.      But under the surface of the jubilation there are internal conflicts - professional, psychological and sexual – among the president and faculty. And, a shocking discovery about one of Hotchclaw’s most admired faculty members sets off a maze of entanglements reaching to a predominantly white northern university.      Ann Allen Shockley is the award-winning author of six books of fiction and non-fiction. Loving Her was originally released by a mainstream publisher in 1974 and reprinted in 1997 by Northeastern University Press, Loving Her has been acclaimed as the first novel by an African American author to have an African American protagonist and to deal explicitly with an interracial lesbian relationship.       In addition to her career as a writer, Ann Allen Shockley has been a librarian and archivist at Delaware State University , the University of Maryland , Eastern Shore , and most recently at Fisk University in Nashville , Tennessee , where she now resides.