Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford is a Top 100 AALBC.com Bestselling Author Making Our List 12 Times

Carole Boston Weatherford is the New York Times best-selling author of three Caldecott Honor books: Freedom in Congo Square, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. A two-time NAACP Image Award recipient, Carole has the soul of a poet and the heart of a historian. Family stories, fading traditions and forgotten struggles inform her poetry, nonfiction, historical fiction and biographies. She has spotlighted not only legends like Billie Holiday and John Coltrane but also lesser known historical figures such as Harlem Renaissance bibliophile Arturo Schomburg. Nowadays, she collaborates with her son, illustrator and poet Jeffery Weatherford, on book like You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen.

Carole believes that poetry makes music with words and she often writes about musical subjects from jazz and gospel to R&B and rap. Her recent releases include: The Legendary Miss Lena Horne; The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip Hop; By and By: Charles Albert Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music; and R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul.

A Fayetteville State University professor, Carole lives in High Point, North Carolina.