Julius Lester is a celebrated author whose accolades include
a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Award. He is also a
National Book Award finalist, a National Book Critics Circle
nominee, and a recipient of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. In
addition to his critically acclaimed writing career, Mr. Lester has
distinguished himself as a civil rights activist, musician,
photographer, radio talk-show host, and professor. For 32 years he
taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He lives in
western Massachusetts.
Tom Feelings has received numerous awards for his art in
books. In 1972, he was the first African-American artist to win a
Caldecott Honor, for Moja Means One: Swahili Counting
Book, and in 1975 he won a second Caldecott Honor
for Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book, both written by
Muriel Feelings. Mr. Feelings taught art at the University of South
Carolina. It was during that time he published perhaps his
best-known work, The Middle Passage, which won the 1996
Coretta Scott King Award. Mr. Feelings was working on finishing his
last picture book, I Saw Your Face, a collaboration with the
poet Kwame Dawes, not long before his death in 2003.
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