Erania Chapman was born in Greenville, SC, in 1948, to parents raised in a single parent home that lived in an oppressed environment. Erania was raised in South Point, Ohio, after graduating from South Point High School, she attended Marshall University and Century College of Commerce. Erania resides in West Virginia where she continues to work for a local newspaper. Erania’s first copy of T-3: Just Me and the Sunset was published in 2002. After many years of being out of print and encouragement from a few people that read this book Erania decided to polish and republish T-3: Just Me and the Sunset.