Museet, Stockholm; Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library). Bibliography Jazz People. London: Allison & Busby, 1970; Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1970; reprinted Quartet books, 1977. New edition Da Capo Press, 1991. The Face of Black Music: Photographs by Valerie Wilmer. New York: Da Capo Press, 1976. As Serious as Your Life: The Story of the New Jazz. London: Allison & Busby, 1977. New edition with introduction by Richard Williams from Serpent's Tail, March 2018, . Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This: My Life in the Jazz World. London: Women's Press, 1989, . Awards and recognition In 2009 Val Wilmer was honoured with a Parliamentary Jazz Award for Services to Jazz. In July 2017, she featured in "The Wire Salon: An Audience with Val Wilmer" at Cafe Oto. She is the subject of BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature: A Portrait of Val Wilmer, produced by Steve Urquhart (featuring contributions from Margaret Busby, Paul Gilroy, Richard Williams, Andrew Cyrille, and Clive Wilmer), which was first broadcast on 4 March 2018. The following week, she was also featured by Robert Elms as a "Listed Londoner" on his BBC Radio London programme. In 2019, Wilmer received the Lona Foote/Bob Parent Award for Career Excellence in Photography at the 24th annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards. In 2020, Wilmer became a Patron of the National Jazz Archive. References Sources and further reading Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Field: 85-88 (Detroit: Cengage Gale, 1980). Davies, Sue. Contemporary Photographers, Martin Marix Evans, ed. (New York: St. James Press, 1995). Fischlin, David, and Ajay Heble. The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue, 1st edition, Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2004. Ford, Robert. A Blues Bibliography (Bromley: Paul Pelletier Publishing, 1999; 2nd edition, New York: Routledge, 2007). Gannon, Robert. "Wilmer, Valerie",The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Barry Dean Kernfeld, ed. (London: MacMillan Press, 1988), p. 1299; entry revised by B. Kernfeld (2nd edition, 2002). Gray, John. Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959–1990 (Westport: Greenwood, 1991). Gray, Michael. The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006). McKay, George. Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005). Mathieson, Kenny. Encyclopaedia of Blues. Komara, Edward, ed. (New York: Routledge, 2006). Oliphant, Dave.