

He is also the author-illustrator of Black Cat and H.O.R.S.E.: A Game of Basketball and Imagination, both Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart A Time to Love: Stories from the Old Testament Looking Like Me Wings and Fly! Cummings Harlem: A Poem, a Caldecott Honor Book Jazz, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book Blues Journey, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book. He is the acclaimed illustrator of Love: Selected Poems by E. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida.Ĭhristopher Myers is a graduate of Brown University and the Whitney Museum of Art Independent Studio Program.

She attended Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1928. She wrote four novels ( Jonah’s Gourd Vine, 1934 Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937 Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939 and Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948) two books of folklore ( Mules and Men, 1935, and Tell My Horse, 1938) an autobiography ( Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942) an international bestselling nonfiction work ( Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” 2018) and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist.
