About the Author

Sharon Hunt, born in Nobletown, Oklahoma and is a 1965 graduate of Wewoka High School. She graduated with B.S. and M.S Degrees from Oklahoma State University. She did further study at Kansas State University.

Ms. Hunt is a registered dietitian and worked as a dietitian at St. Luke’s and Texas Children’s Hospitals in Houston, Texas. Ms. Hunt taught food and nutrition for more than 40 years at Langston University and Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, Georgia. While at Fort Valley, Ms. Hunt wrote a cookbook Bread from Heaven and appeared on QVC Home Shopping Network three times. Ms. Hunt wrote the original recipe for the World Largest Peach Cobbler for Peach County, Georgia.

Ms. Hunt co-founded the undergraduate chapter of Delta Sigma Theta at Oklahoma State University and served as the charter president of the Warner Robins Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in Warner Robins, Georgia.

Currently, Ms. Hunt is retired from teaching and has begun a new career in African-American History. She has self-published 40 books on different aspects of history. She mainly writes about Oklahoma and Georgia.

She hopes to be on the move to write 11th grade Black history books and to include more history about the slaves in eleventh grade history in the United States. As a honor for slaves’ history of survival, Ms. Hunt nominated Ash cakes(hoe cake) for a bread for Oklahoma and Collard Greens for Georgia. Ms. Hunt has a trademark on a Barbecue sauce for Oklahoma and Georgia. The name of the sauce is Dewey’s Gourmet Barbecue Sauce.

Ms. Hunt received approval from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation to place a Community Pride Sign on Highway 56 in Wewoka, Oklahoma. The Sign was for a popular lawyer who assisted in settling the African-Americans, Creeks and Seminole Native Americans in early Wewoka and other parts of Oklahoma. The name of the lawyer was James Coody Johnson, an African-American, born before the Civil War.

Currently, Ms. Hunt presented two projects to her hometown of Wewoka-Commemorative Monument for celebrating “LAW DAY” and a James Coody Johnson Museum projects for consideration.

Ms. Hunt is a granddaughter of a ‘Geechee” Grandmother and great, great grand Daughter of a Georgia Plantation owner and slave woman.