Book Group Guides

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 100 Years, by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany, with Amy Hill Hearth

Having Our Say: The official website accompaniment to the book.

Having Our Say: History: From this page of the above website, you can read the original New York Times article that inspired the book.

Amy Hill Hearth, Author: Hearth, a reporter, worked with the Delany sisters to write this book. Read her own account of the process.

Having Our Say by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany: The resource from the Idaho Commission on Libraries includes background, discussion questions, and links.

Sisters Act: Read a review of the play based on the book from Metro, Silicon Valley's weekly newspaper.

Dr. Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, 104, subject of best-selling memoir and Broadway play, dies: Read the obituary of A. Elizabeth Delany from Jet, October 16, 1995.

Delany, 109, Remembered as a Pioneer: Read the obituary of Sarah Delany from the Topeka-Capitol Journal, February 2, 1999.

The Delany Sisters Rose

Author Amy Hill Hearth wanted to give Sadie Delany something really special for her 107th birthday. So she found a rose hybridizer who created a special hybrid Delany Sisters Rose, which red ''for feisty Bessie'' and ivory ''for sweet Sadie,'' according to Ms. Hearth. See a picture of it here!

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