Marilyn Nelson

Gebundenes Buch

Augusta Savage

The Shape of a Sculptor's Life

Beschreibung

A powerful biography in poems? about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Art & Artifacts Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Autor

Marilyn Nelson is the author of many award-winning books, including August Savage, which was named to Kirkus, School Library Journal, and The Horn Book’s Best of Year lists in addition to receiving a Black Caucus ALA Honor and the Bank Street College of Education’s Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry. She is also the author of Carver: A Life in Poems, which was a National Book Award finalist, a Newbery Honor Book, and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book, and A Wreath for Emmett Till, which garnered a Coretta Scott King Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor. Marilyn lives in Connecticut. Tammi Lawson is the curator of the Art and Artifacts Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the steward of a collection of over fifteen thousand items that visually document the Black Diaspora. The Schomburg also houses the largest collection of art by Augusta Savage in a public institution. The New York Public Library recently awarded Lawson the 2020 Bertha Franklin Feder Award for Excellence in Librarianship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown & Company
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Altersempfehlung: 14 bis 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780316298025
• ISBN-10: 0316298026
• Artikelnr.: 62222268