Jerry Pinkney was one of America’s most admired children’s book illustrators and illustrated more than one hundred picture books. Lester passed away in 2018 at the age of seventy-eight. He taught for over three decades at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was awarded all three of the university’s most prestigious faculty awards. His novel To Be a Slave is the first Newbery Medal Honor Book by a Black author. He won numerous awards, including the Coretta Scott King Award, the Newbery Honor Medal, the American Library Association Notable Book award, the New York Times Outstanding Book award, the Caldecott Honor Book award, and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Julius Lester was an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of books for both adults and children.
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