Author, Anita Wills, is the Author of two books, Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color, and Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family (due out May 2009). Ms. Wills writes about Free Persons of Color in Colonial Virginia and Pennsylvania.  She was born and raised in Chester County Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Her early influences were her father, who was a linguist, and her mother who shared stories about their forebearers.