Carole Boston Weatherford

The daughter of a printer, Carole Boston Weatherford was practically born with ink in her blood. She began writing at age six and soon after saw her poems in print. Her 80-plus books have garnered two NAACP Image Awards and 19 American Library Association Youth Media Awards, including a Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Award and four Caldecott Honors. Her career achievements have been recognized with the ALA Children’s Literature Legacy Award, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and the Nonfiction Award from the Children’s Book Guild. The 2025-2026 Young People’s Poet Laureate and a retired HBCU professor, she lives in Baltimore.

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