[1] According to the book's inscription, it was written in memory of the author's mother, Rebecca Poringer Baker.

[2] A Chair for My Mother is a read-aloud picture story book, written for an audience between ages 4 and 8.

Her aunt and uncle then moved downstairs, so the girl's mother was left to fill the apartment.

The story wraps up with the girl, her mother, and her grandmother spending time together enjoying their new chair.

In 1983, Williams published Something Special for Me, a sequel to A Chair for My Mother, in which the family saves coins for an accordion for the young girl.