Angela Johnson
Angela Johnson is an award-winning American children's book author, poet, and young adult novelist with over 40 books to her credit, beginning her career in 1989 with 'Tell Me a Story, Mama,' which won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award in 1991. She has received three Coretta Scott King Awards for 'Toning the Sweep' (1994), 'Heaven' (1999), and 'The First Part Last' (2004), the latter also earning the Michael L. Printz Award, and was named a 2003 MacArthur Fellow. Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1961, she grew up in Alabama and Ohio, attended Kent State University, and resides in Kent, Ohio.[1][2][5][7]
Children's literature
Young adult fiction
Poetry
Do Like Kyla
One Of Three
When I Am Old With You
The First Part Last
The First Part Last
Sweet, Hereafter
Bird (Lib)(CD)
Lottie Paris and the Best Place
A Sweet Smell of Roses
The First Part Last
Violet's Music
A Sweet Smell of Roses
The First Part Last (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
I Dream of Trains (Golden Kite Awards)
The Day Ray Got Away
Heaven
A Certain October
A Certain October
Lottie Paris Lives Here
Lottie Paris Lives Here
The Girl Who Wore Snakes
A Certain October
Just Like Josh Gibson