Nikesha Elise Williams Books In Order

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Nikesha Elise Williams is an author, an Emmy Award-winning producer, and known as the producer and the host of the Black and Published podcast. She has won two Emmys for her production work.

During the day, she is a narrative strategist, and considers herself always a journalist. She has seen her writing be featured in such places as The Bitter Southerner, The Washington Post, Vox, and Essence.

Nikesha went to Florida State University, and graduated with her B.S. in Communication: Mass Media Studies and Honors English Creative Writing.

Her book Beyond Bourbon Street was picked to be Best Fiction through the Black Caucus of African-American Librarians in the 2021 Self-Published eBook Literary Awards. The book also received a 2020 Outstanding Book Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

Her debut novel was titled Four Women. It received a lot of positive recognition, including the 2018 NABJ Outstanding Literary Work Award and the Florida Authors and Publisher’s Association President’s Award for Adult Contemporary/Literary Fiction.

Nikesha’s writing and work has been supported thanks to the DeGroot Foundation, the Kimbilio Fiction Fellowship, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. The author is a native of the city of Chicago but today resides in Florida along with her family.

Beyond Bourbon Street is a 2020 novel by Nikesha Elise Williams. If you’ve been looking out for a unique book that is going to whisk you away from your everyday life, take a vacation and disappear into another world entirely by giving this one a try.

How is a couple able to make their way through the world and survive when it turns out the one thing that ended up bringing them together was the same one that was threatening to pull them apart? In this novel, the author is able to bring readers an engaging tale featuring family and home in New Orleans in its famed ninth ward– which is still recovering.

Bombei and Graigh Halvert were a couple who ended up meeting in 2006 following all of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina brought to the area. It’s now been fifteen years following the passing of the storm and the couple have moved on in life as they’ve gotten married and are getting ready to have their first child together.

Despite all of this, the couple find that their childhood traumas are coming between them. Everything that they have gone through is festering and it could potentially ruin everything. It could rot not only their relationship but the family that they are doing their best to build from the ground up.

This story goes into the mystery that first connections can bring and the intrigue that meeting someone for the first time can have and puts it up against the responsibility of familial obligation and the ties that bind. The pair must make a choice between family and home and preserving themselves, and readers will be on the edge of their seat as they do so.

Put up against the backdrop of one of the most famous cities in America, the author is able to successfully take the reader away from all of the party glamour that the city is recognized for and goes into the deep parts of the city where every day is full of challenges and shows how resurrection and resilience are part of everyday life there. Check out this book to find out what happens!

The Seven Daughters of Dupree is a 2026 novel by Nikesha Elise Williams. If you’ve been wanting to read something that is original and also makes you feel like you’re reading something of value that is adding to your life, this could be the right book for you.

This is a multi-generational epic that goes across seven different generations of women in the Dupree family. It follows along with them as they make their way through loss, love, and the ties that family members share for a story that will stay with you long after you close the final page.

The year is 1995. Tati is fourteen years old and really wants to get to the bottom of who her father is. Despite all of this, her mother Nadia does not want to volunteer too much information and is keeping her secrets close to the vest. Meanwhile, her grandmother Gladys is not volunteering anything for her to work with either and is keeping quiet about everything, including the main reason as to why she left Land’s End, Alabama in 1953.

Despite all of this, Tati remains determined and is not going to let anything get in the way of her finding out more. She doesn’t care whether her family members are going to tell her things; she’s going to work herself to get to the root of what is (or was) going on.

As Tati looks into things more deeply, she finds a legacy of family secrets. Every generation of Dupree women seems to provoke more questions than they provide answers for. There is Jubi in 1917, who attempted to pass for white but has that journey end when she gives birth to her daughter Ruby.

Then there is Ruby and her lust for Sampson in 1934, an emotion and act that ends up leaving her with her own baby. Then there is one night in 1980 that could end up changing Nadia’s own future for good. No matter who it is or in what time, the Dupree women carry the weight of their heritage. They also appear to have some type of malediction that says that they will only give birth to daughters.

The more that Tati digs, the more she finds examples of women in the Dupree family who take on a legacy of resilience, pain, and survival, all of which started with the life of an enslaved ancestor who put everything on the line in order to be free.

This novel pulls together many themes, such as strength, generational trauma, family bonds, and resilience. Seven generations of Black women in one family are shown through the efforts of Tati in a novel that will have readers riveted from start to finish. Check out The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams to follow along with every word!