Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com) is the
recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a
2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the 2020 Hans Christian Andersen Award,
the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the 2018 Children’s
Literature Legacy Award. She was the 2018–2019 National
Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, and in 2015, she was
named the Young People’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation.
She received the 2014 National Book Award for her New York Times
bestselling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, which was also a recipient
of the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, the NAACP Image
Award, and a Sibert Honor. She wrote the adult books Red at the
Bone, a New York Times bestseller, and Another Brooklyn, a 2016
National Book Award finalist. Born in Columbus, Ohio,
Jacqueline grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Brooklyn, New
York, and graduated from college with a B.A. in English. She is the
author of dozens of award-winning books for young adults, middle
graders, and children; among her many accolades, she is a four-time
Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and
a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Her books include
Coretta Scott King Award winner Before the Ever After; New York
Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me; The Other Side,
Each Kindness, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon; Newbery
Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster; and
Miracle's Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the
Coretta Scott King Award. Jacqueline is also a recipient of the
Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement for her
contributions to young adult literature and a two-time winner of
the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. She lives with her family in
Brooklyn, New York.
E.B. Lewis was born on December 16, 1956, in Philadelphia,
PA. As early as the third grade he displayed artistic promise.
Inspired by two uncles, who where artists, Lewis decided he wanted
to follow in their footsteps. After finishing the sixth grade, he
attended the Saturday morning Temple University School Art League
run by his uncle. Under the tutelage of Clarence Wood, a noted
painter in Philadelphia, Lewis began his formal art training. He
remained in the program until his enrollment in the Temple
University Tyler School of Art in 1975.
During his four years at Temple, Lewis majored in Graphic Design
and Illustration, along with Art Education. There he discovered his
medium of preference, watercolor.
Upon graduation in 1979, Lewis went directly into teaching, along
with freelancing in Graphic Design. Between 1985 and 1986 he had
completed a body of work which was exhibited in a downtown
Philadelphia gallery. The show sold out and bought him public
recognition and critical acclaim. Within two years his work was
exhibited at the prestigious Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia,
where his shows continue to sell out.
Lewis' work is now part of major private collections and is
displayed in galleries throughout the United States. Honoring
Lewis, Barbara Bader's History on American Picture books will be
including a description of Earl and his achievements as an artist.
Currently, Earl Lewis is teaching illustration at the University of
the Arts in Philadelphia and is a member of The Society of
Illustrators in New York City.
E. B. Lewis is the illustrator of two Coretta Scott King Honor
Books, Rows and Piles of Coins and Bat Boy and his
Violin. He lives in New Jersey.
* "Manages to plumb great depths with understated simplicity+Text
and art work together beautifully."—School Library Journal, starred
review
"Pictures and words make strong partners here, convincingly
communicating a timeless lesson."—Publishers Weekly
"Even young children will understand the fence metaphor and they
will enjoy the quiet friendship drama."—Booklist
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