Andrea Davis Pinkney Talks with Roger

by Roger Sutton
Jan 16, 2018 | Filed in Authors & Illustrators


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The Horn Book Guide Online counts seventy-nine biographies of Martin Luther King Jr. as being published in the last twenty-nine years. No doubt there are always more books about the man to be written, but what, exactly, can a new book bring to our understanding of this American hero? I went to New York last month to talk to Andrea Davis Pinkney about her and her husband Brian Pinkney's Martin Rising: Requiem for a King, a resplendent volume of poetry and painting devoted — daringly, I think — to King's last days.


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Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton has been the editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc, since 1996. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a B.A. from Pitzer College in 1978. Follow him on Twitter: @RogerReads.

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