Mildred D. Taylor is the author of eight previous novels and has garnered such awards a Newbery Medal, three Coretta Scott King Awards, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book award. She received her Master of Arts degree from the University of Colorado's School of Journalism and went on to work as a proofreader-editor program coordinator for an international house and a community free school. She now devotes her time to her family, writing, and what she terms the "family ranch" in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
"The vivid story of a black family whose warm ties to each other
and their land give them strength to defy rural Southern racism
during the Depression. . . . Entirely through its own internal
development, the novel shows the rich inner rewards of black pride,
love, and independence despite the certainty of outer defeat."
—Booklist (starred review)
"The strong, clear-headed Logan family . . . are drawn with quiet
affection and their actions tempered with a keen sense of human
fallibility."—pointer, Kirkus Reviews
"The events and setting of the powerful novel are presented with
such verisimilitude and the characters are so carefully drawn that
one might assume the book to be autobiographical, if the author
were not so young."—The Horn Book
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