Patricia C. McKissack
, 1944 - 2017
Patricia C. McKissack was an African-American writer born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1944. She got married to Fredrick McKissack with whom she wrote over a hundred books, many of which are based on stories told to her by her mother and grandparents about the African-American experience. She also wrote under the names L'Ann Carwell and Pat McKissack. She was a board member of the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance. As an American author in children’s literature, biographical and historical fiction and folktales, she authored many books among which: Sojourner Truth: A Voice of Freedom, Flossie and Fox, Mirany and Brother Vlind and Never Forgotten, which won the 2012 PEN/Steven Kroll Award. Apart from this, she has won several awards including Coretta Scott King Award and Jane Addams Children’s Book Award both in 1990 for A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter (which she co-authored with her husband). She died in 2017.
Sources:
en.wikipedia.org (accessed: July 30, 2021).
scholastic.com (accessed: July 30, 2021).
Bio prepared by Eleanor A. Dasi, University of Yaoundé I, wandasi5@yahoo.com
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