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Bio:

Precious Williams was first published aged 8 when her poem won first prize in a poetry competition, netting her £2.

Born in the UK, she is of Sierra Leonean and Nigerian extraction. When Precious was a few days old her Nigerian mother advertised her in the classified ads section of a magazine called "Nursery World." The ad is said to have read: "Pretty Nigerian baby girl needs a new home."

The advertisement was answered by a kind but eccentric 57-year-old white woman who said she'd loved "coloured" people ever since first reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Precious's first book, "Precious: A True Story" is a memoir about her turbulent childhood and teenage years. The book is titled "Color Blind" in the US. Both editions will be published by Bloomsbury in August 2010.

Precious is also a journalist and has been a Contributing Editor at Elle, the Mail on Sunday and Cosmopolitan and a Feature Writer at the Independent. She has also been published in Marie Claire, The Times, the Financial Times, New York Magazine, Glamour and several other publications.

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