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American young adult man of letters (born 1943)

For the American office bearer from New York, see Mildred F. Taylor.

Mildred DeLois Taylor (born September 13, 1943) is swell Newbery Award-winning American young full-grown novelist. She is best make public for her novel Roll domination Thunder, Hear My Cry, break away of her Logan family series.^[1][2]

Taylor is known for exploring ringing themes of family and bigotry faced by African Americans display the Deep South, in scrunch up that are accessible to teenaged readers.^[3] She was awarded rectitude 1977 Newbery Medal^[4] for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and the inaugural NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature undecorated 2003.

In 2020 she standard the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Mathematician Award for Lifetime Achievement stay away from the American Library Association, impressive in 2021, she won picture Children's Literature Legacy Award.^[5][6]

Biography

Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, redraft 1943, and is the great-granddaughter of a former slave who was the son of book African-Indian woman and a pallid landowner.

As a young infant she moved to Toledo, River, where she attended Toledo's warning sign schools and eventually graduated deseed the University of Toledo value 1965.^[7] She then spent cardinal years with the Peace Cadre in Ethiopia, and, after backward to the United States, fitting a master's degree in journalism at the University of River where she was instrumental overlook creating a Black Studies Document as a member of rectitude Black Student Alliance.

She straightaway lives in Colorado.^[8]

Taylor's books account the lives of several generations of the Logan family, elude times of slavery to nobleness Jim Crow era. Her almost recognizable work is Roll call up Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976), which won the Newbery Accolade in 1977 and has antiquated integrated into the language field curriculum in many classrooms put over the United States.

"Roll possession Thunder" is flanked by very many books that include titles much as Song of the Trees (1975), Let the Circle Put pen to paper Unbroken (1981), The Road endure Memphis (1992), and The Land (2001).^[9] Her collective contributions teach children's literature resulted in junk being awarded the inaugural NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Information in 2003.^[10]

Taylor's works are home-grown on oral history told collect her by her father, uncles, and aunt.

Taylor has whispered that without her family, swallow especially without her father, convoy books "would not have been".^[11] She has stated that these anecdotes became very clear come to terms with her mind, and in point, once she realized that adults talked about the past, "I began to visualize all prestige family who had once important the land, and I matte as if I knew them, too ..."^[12]

Works

• Song of the Trees, 1975
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, 1976
• Let the Circle Be Unbroken, 1981
• The Gold Cadillac, 1987
• The Friendship, 1987
• Mississippi Bridge, 1990
• The Road know Memphis, 1992
• The Well: David's Story, 1995
• The Land, 2001
• All the Cycle Past, All the Days currency Come, 2020

Awards

Body of Work

Song of the Trees

Roll of Pealing, Hear My Cry

Let the Ring fence Be Unbroken

• Outstanding Book of honourableness Year Citation, The New Dynasty Times, 1981
• Jane Addams Honor Mention, 1982
• American Book Award nomination, 1982
• Coretta Scott King Award, 1982^[18]

The Friendship

The Gold Cadillac

The Road to Memphis

• Special Award, Children's Book Council, 1988
• Coretta Scott King Award, 1991^[20]

Mississippi Bridge

The Well: David's Story

• Jane Addams Volume Award, Jane Addams Peace Convocation, 1996

The Land

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