I cannot remember a time when books were not in my life. We’re proud to salute the work of Carole Boston Weatherford on the 20th day of our campaign. She has more ideas than she has time to write about. On her website, she writes that she never gets writer’s block. That book, Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Jump at the Sun, 2006), illustrated brilliantly by Kadir Nelson, catapulted her to new ranks.Īcclaimed author of more than two dozen books, Weatherford is a talented poet whose stories draw on the richness of the past, the music of jazz, the beauty of tradition. One day, Weatherford would tell the story of Tubman’s life and relationship with God in a way so powerful and stirring it would win recognition around the globe. She has roots in the same county where Harriet Tubman, one of her childhood heroes, was born into slavery and escaped. Weatherford’s Maryland upbringing held another of her destinies too. Little did she know she held the future in her hands. When her father, a printing teacher, printed several of her poems, Weatherford received a special thrill. Called to writing as a child, award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford wrote her first poem in grade school.
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