Toni Morrison (1931–2019) was a Nobel Prize–winning American
author, editor, and professor. Her contributions to the modern
canon are numerous. Some of her acclaimed titles include: The
Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved, which won the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988. She won the 1993 Nobel Prize
for Literature.
Slade Morrison was born in Ohio and educated in New York City. He
studied art at SUNY Purchase and collaborated with his mother, Toni
Morrison, on their books for children.
Shadra Strickland studied, design, writing, and illustration at
Syracuse University and later went on to complete her MFA at the
School of Visual Arts in New York City. She won the Ezra Jack Keats
Award and the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New
Talent in 2009 for her work in her first picture book, Bird,
written by Zetta Elliott. Strickland coillustrated Our
Children Can Soar, winner of a 2010 NAACP Image Award. She teaches
illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore,
Maryland. Visit her online at ShadraStrickland.com.
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