found: Her Brooklyn story, 1970.
found: NUCMC data from North Carolina Central Univ. for Sharon Mathis collection, 1975
found: Biography resource center, July 25, 2003(Sharon Bell Mathis, 1937- ; born February 26, 1937, in Atlantic City, NJ; daughter of John Willie and Alice Mary (Frazier) Bell; married Leroy Franklin Mathis, July 11, 1957; divorced)
found: The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, accessed February 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Mathis, Sharon Bell; educator, children's book writer/illustrator, essayist, librarian; born in 1937 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States; BA in sociology from Morgan State College in Baltimore (1960); published The Fire Escape; became the director of children's literature division of the DC Black Writers Workshop (1969); published second book, Sidewalk Story, followed by, Teacup Full of Roses (1972); published the juvenile biography Ray Charles (1973) and The Hundred Penny Box (1975); received Child Study Association of America's Children's Books of the Year, American Library Association's Best Young Adult Books, Coretta Scott King Award (1974) and Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book (1975))