Carole Boston Weatherford

New York Times bestselling author of more than 50 books for young people. Poet behind award-winning the middle grade and young adult verse novels: Becoming Billie Holiday (Coretta Scott King Author Honor); Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe; You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen; Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott & Sibert honors); and Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library (WNDB Walter Award & SCBWI Golden Kite Award). I also write sophisticated picture books like MOSES: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Caldecott honor); The Legendary Miss Lena Horne; and Leontyne Price: The Voice of a Century.