Ashley Bryan
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About the Author
Ashley Bryan (1923-2022) was a multi-award-winning children’s book author and illustrator with several Coretta Scott King Awards, a Newbery Honor, and a Children’s Literature Legacy Award (formerly the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award) among his honors. Named one of New York Public Library’s Literary Lions in 2008, he also taught art at such institutions as Dalton School, Philadelphia College of Art, Queens College, and Dartmouth College.
Telling stories of African folklore and the African-American experience for more than sixty years, his books include Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum, Beautiful Blackbird, Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life and Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace. He also contributed his collage art to Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Nikki Giovanni’s The Sun Is So Quiet (a Parents’ Choice Award-winner), and Langston Hughes’s Carol of the Crown King: Nativity Poems among many others.
