Marilyn Nelson

Biography

Marilyn Nelson was the Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut (2001-2006) and a three-time National Book Award Finalist. She has won the Annisfield-Wolf Award and the 1999 Poets’ Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Winship Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.

Nelson is the author of The Freedom Business, Fortune, and Carver: A Life in Poems, among other titles. She is also a Newbery Honor Book winner, and a Boston Globe—Horn Book award winner. Dr. Nelson lives in Connecticut.

Learn more at Marilyn Nelson’s official website.

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AALBC’s Founder, Troy Johnson, hosts a conversation about the children’s book Papa’s Free Day Party with the book’s author Marilyn Nelson; Boley, Oklahoma’s Mayor, Dr. Frances Shelton; and Boley Town Historian, Judge Henrietta Hicks.

Leading independent children’s book publisher Just Us Books will publish Papa’s Free Day Party, a powerful new picture book by award-winning poet and author Marilyn Nelson, illustrated by award-winning artist Wayne Anthony Still this April. Papa’s Free Day Party is based on the true story of Marilyn’s grandfather, who escaped a racist attack as a child, was taken in by a white family, and went on to build a new life in the all-Black town of Boley, Oklahoma. Papa’s Free Day Party will be published in hardcover and released on April 20, 2021. Learn More about this book: https://aalbc.com/content.php?title=Poet+Marilyn+Nelson+Shares+Her+Family%26rsquo%3Bs+Story+of+Freedom

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