Sharon Ewell Foster is a critically acclaimed, award-winning�author, speaker, and teacher.�She is the author of Passing by Samaria, the first successful work of Christian fiction by an African American author, and The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part One: The Witnesses, which won the 2012 Shaara Prize for Civil War Fiction.�Sharon is a Christy Award-winning author whose books have earned her�a loyal following that crosses market, gender, and racial boundaries. She regularly receives starred book reviews and is also�winner of the Gold Pen Award, Best of Borders, and several reviewers' choice awards.�