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]