Toni Morrison (Feb.18,1931- Aug 5, 2019) was widely regarded as a premiere American writer of the modern era. In 1931, Morrison was born to a welder father and domestic worker mother. Both instilled in her the importance of education and the arts. She and her family lived in a mixed neighborhood, and not until high […]
Born in 1963, Jacqueline Woodson is a multiple award-winning children books and adolescent fiction books’ author. She is well-known for depicting detailed physical aspects in each of her books. Her story writing technique involves placing physical and psychological boundaries around her characters, boundaries of all sorts: cultural, economic, physical, sensual, and racial boundaries. Her characters […]
Jason Reynolds is an American author who writes novels and poetry for young adults and middle-grade children. Born in Washington DC in 1983, Reynolds grew up with his three siblings, just across the Maryland border in Oxon Hill. Her mother was a special education teacher and worked hard enough to bring up four of her […]
Walter Dean Myers was a writer of children’s books who wrote more than a hundred books for children and young adults. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in 1937. He had a decent, loving family – which the average man dreams of having – that included his wife, two sons, and a daughter. His […]
