Sam Walters [SEP] date of birth
Sam Walters
Sam Walters MBE (born 11 October 1939) is a British theatre director who retired in 2014 as Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London. He has also directed in the West End and at Ipswich, Canterbury and Greenwich, as well as at LAMDA, RADA and Webber Douglas. After 42 years Walters, the United Kingdom's longest-serving artistic director, and his wife and associate director, Auriol Smith, stepped down from their posts at the Orange Tree Theatre in June 2014.
Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess
Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess is an 1891 novel by Joseph Jeffrey Walters and is the earliest surviving novel published in English by a Black African.
Background.
Joseph Jeffrey Walters was born in Liberia to Vey parents some time in the 1860s (his exact birth date is not known). Between 1878 and 1882 Walters joined the Cape Mount Mission and later moved to the United States pursuing a college education. He studied at Storer College in West Virginia