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In 1991, Delany and her sister Bessie were interviewed by journalist Amy Hill Hearth, who wrote a feature story about them for The New York Times.

A New York book publisher read Hearth's newspaper story and asked her to write a full-length book on the sisters.

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Hearth and the sisters worked closely for two years to create the book, an oral history called Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters ' First 100 Years, which dealt with the trials and tribulations the sisters had faced during their century of life.

The book was on The New York Times bestseller lists for 105 weeks.

It spawned a Broadway play in 1995 and a television film in 1999.

Both the play and film adaptations were produced by Judith R. James and Dr. Camille O. Cosby.