Upon graduating from Princeton University, Bolden began working as a salesperson for Charles Alan, Incorporated, a dress manufacturer, while working towards her M.A. Bolden was also a University Scholar and received the Nicholas Bachko, Jr.

degree in Slavic languages and literature with a Russian focus. Bolden attended Princeton University in New Jersey, and, in 1981, obtained her B.A.

146, an elementary school in Manhattan, and then graduated from the Chapin School, a private secondary school, in Manhattan in 1976. Bolden grew up in Harlem in a musical family and loved to read she attended Public M.E.S. Upon graduating from Princeton University, Bolden began working as a salesperson for Charles Alan, Incorporated, a Author and publisher Tonya Wilyce Bolden was born on March 1, 1959, in New York City to Georgia Bolden, a homemaker, and Willie Bolden, a garment center shipping manager. Author and publisher Tonya Wilyce Bolden was born on March 1, 1959, in New York City to Georgia Bolden, a homemaker, and Willie Bolden, a garment center shipping manager.

Crossing Ebenezer Creek by Tonya Bolden