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Author Shares Her Memories of the Lorain Public Library AKA Toni Morrison’s Library (Part 4 Two Middle School Friends Become Authors)
by Rachel Bennett Steury
  • July 6, 2026
  • 3 mins story
Rachel Bennett Steury Shonda Thompson author Lorain Public Library Lorain Ohio
1. What story can you tell about a unique, compelling, or interesting person, either in the past or present, and how they impacted your life, your family, the community, or the lives of others?
Rachel Bennett Steury and Shonda Thompson in the Toni Morrison Reading Room, June 2026
Rachel Bennett Steury and Shonda Thompson finding our memoirs on the shelves in the Lorain Public Library, June 2026
Rachel Bennett Steury and Shonda Thompson on the Mile Long Pier, 2009
Shonda Thompson holding her memoir "Authentically Shonda: A Memoir of Breaking Generational Curses, Searching for Love, and Finding Abundance"
Rachel Bennett Steury holding her memoir "Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice: Confessions of a Living Donor"
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