Up HomeBy: Ruth J. Simmons NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Simmonss evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignity.The New York Times Book Review (Editors Choice) A riveting work of literature, destined to take its place in the canon of great African American autobiographies.Henry