Carole Boston Weatherford
New York Times bestselling author Carole Boston Weatherford’s 60-plus books include the Caldecott Honor book
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, for which she was also awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor winner
Box; and the Caldecott Honor winners
Freedom in Congo Square,
Fannie Lou Hamer, and
Moses. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor for
Becoming Billie Holiday. Weatherford teaches composition and children's literature at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Visit cbweatherford.com.