Coretta Scott King Award
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The Coretta Scott King Award is an annual award presented by the Coretta Scott King Book Award Round Table, part of the American Library Association (ALA). Named for Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr., this award recognizes outstanding books for young adults and children by African Americans that reflect the African American experience. Awards are given both to authors and to illustrators.
Sharon Draper won the Steptoe Award before going on to win two Coretta Scott King Awards
Ashley Bryan has won the award as both an author and illustrator and has been recognized 12 total times
Christopher Paul Curtis became the first author to win the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award in the same year for Bud, Not Buddy.
Lucille Clifton
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Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Plaque quoting Clifton outside the New York Public Library
Rear Admiral J. Scott Burhoe reads Three Wishes, by Clifton, to a first-grade class at Nathan Hale Elementary in honor of African American History Month, February 12, 2010.