The celebrated biography, It's No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown's Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy, about Motown's first female in-house songwriter and producer continues to gain recognition.

This time goodreads named the historical corrective on its list of Foundations of History: Essential Scholarly Works.  Out of 91 books ranked, It's No Wonder placed 28th.

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It's No Wonder is available to order everywhere books are sold. 

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Attention! The ladies of Motown have entered The Conversation and it made front page news!

Check out the article in The Conversation about how "Motown's Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut." To read it, go here to The Conversation.

While writing her current book, It's No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown's Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy, Dr. Christian thought of how other pioneering women there might have been overlooked and ignored. 

The Conversation is a nonprofit news organization bringing knowledge from academia to the wider public. Articles are written by scholars who are experts on issues of public interest, assisted by editors who help unlock the knowledge. The Conversation was founded in 2011 and has newsrooms in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, and France.

MSN and Yahoo!News also picked up the article along with the following other media outlets: Stamford Advocate (Connecticut), Inkl.com, Bozeman Daily Chronicle (Montana), The Daily News (Galveston, TX), Benzie County Record Patriot (Michigan), the Seattle P-I (Washington), the Alton Telegraph (Illinois), and the Daily Journal (Mississippi).

This is a man's world, but it would be ABSOLUTELY nothing without a woman or a girl. 

The time has come for history to include HERstory.

The Biographers International Organization (BIO), of which Dr. Christian has been a member since 2022, featured her in the April issue for its Member Interview with Six Questions.

​Her latest release is It's No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown's Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy, which was featured in BIO's February newsletter.

To read the full Member Interview, the following is the link: ​The Biographer’s Craft April 2026 Biographers International Organization

With a worldwide membership of biographers, BIO aims to promote the art and craft of biography, cultivate a diverse community of biographers, encourage public interest in biography, and provide educational and fellowship opportunities that support the work of biographers worldwide.

Dr. Christian's first biography, Empire: The House That John H. Johnson Built, was published in 2018. It was based upon her doctoral research and institutional knowledge as a former longtime EBONY/JET editor at Johnson Publishing Company, founded by Mr. Johnson.

It's No Wonder is available to order everywhere books are sold. 

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Media contact

Tara Kennedy, Publicity Director

Grand Central Publishing and Da Capo

​Tara.Kennedy@hbgusa.com