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Mildred D. Taylor
American young adult novelist (born 1943)
For the American politician from New York, see Mildred F. Taylor.
Mildred DeLois Taylor (born September 13, 1943) is a Newbery Award-winning American young adult novelist.
She is best known for her novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, part of her Logan family series.[1][2]
Taylor is known for exploring powerful themes of family and racism faced by African Americans in the Deep South, in works that are accessible to young readers.[3] She was awarded the 1977 Newbery Medal[4] for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and the inaugural NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2003.
In 2020 she received the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Library Association, and in 2021, she won the Children's Literature Legacy Award.[5][6]
Biography
Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1943, and is the great-gr