Her book, Blackberry Days of Summer has been adapted into a musical stage play, Blackberry Daze, which premiered in Alexandria Virginia’s Metro Stage on Sept. 1, 2016, and was nominated for the prestigious Helen Hayes Award. The musical has also traveled to several cities and received a Suzi Bass Award nomination. She is the recipient of the Caversham Writer’s Residency, in KwaZulu, South Africa, 1st runner-up in the Frank Derby Literary Award, and the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award.  

 

She has written in several genres and enjoys inspiring children and adults through books. She also hosts a Step Up and Pitch It Summit in Atlanta, which educates the community on Atlanta’s growing film and television industry. Ruth Watson is a former appointee on the Fulton County Arts Council and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.  

 

Watson’s newest novel, A Right Worthy Woman, is inspired by the life of the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker, (1864-1934) daughter of a laundress and former enslaved woman who became a courageous community leader in Richmond VA, first as an educator and later as the first Black woman to charter and own a bank that offered loans and mortgages to Black entrepreneur. Walker was a visionary who became one of the country’s foremost female business leaders and an inspiration to women even today. She is widely credited with making her corner of Richmond, VA, one of the most prosperous and vibrant Black communities in America of her time. 

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