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William Wallace (August 1, 1947 – January 30, 2012) was an American teacher and later an author of children's books. He started writing to quiet down his fourth grade students, who loved his stories and encouraged him to make "real" books.
Mary White Ovington, a white co-founder of the NAACP, publishes Hazel [3], a novel about a middle-class Black child. 1919. Children's Book Week is established in the United States. [4] Louise Seaman Bechtel is hired by Macmillan as the first children's book editor in the first US department devoted solely to publishing children's books. 1920
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Floyd Cooper (January 8, 1956 – July 15, 2021) was an American illustrator of children's books whose art frequently explored the African American experience. [1] He was based in Easton, Pennsylvania, [2] and worked with authors such as Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, Eloise Greenfield, Howard Bryant, Joyce Carol Thomas, and Bill Martin Jr, among others. [3]
Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human. Cole Arthur Riley's newest book is a collection of prayers, letters, poems, meditation questions, breath practices, scriptures ...
Eloise Greenfield (1929–2021), children's book author; Sam Greenlee (1930–2014), novelist, poet, best known as author of The Spook Who Sat by the Door; Bonnie Greer (born 1948), novelist, playwright, critic; Deborah Gregory, author of The Cheetah Girls book series; Dick Gregory (1932–2017) Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933)
Writers from Oklahoma City (49 P) Writers from Tulsa, Oklahoma (84 P) A. Academics from Oklahoma (5 C, 25 P) M. Memoirists from Oklahoma (1 P) N. Novelists from ...
Oklahoma's education board has revoked the license of a former teacher who drew national attention during surging book-ban efforts across the U.S. in 2022 when she covered part of her classroom ...