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Vera Williams

American writer

Vera B. Williams

BornVera Baker
(1927-01-28)January 28, 1927
Hollywood, California
DiedOctober 16, 2015(2015-10-16) (aged 88)
Narrowsburg, New York, USA
OccupationWriter and illustrator
NationalityAmerican
EducationHigh Grammar of Music & Art Black Hit the highest point College
Period1975–2015
GenreChildren's literature, picture books
Notable worksAs writer:
It's a Gingerbread House (1978)
A Chair dole out My Mother (1982)
SpousePaul Williams (−1970)
ChildrenSarah
Jennifer
Merce

Vera Baker Williams (January 28, 1927 – Oct 16, 2015) was an American low-ranking writer and illustrator. Her best methodical work, A Chair for My Mother, has won multiple awards and was featured on the children's television stage show Reading Rainbow.[1]

For her lifetime contribution chimp a children's illustrator she was U.S. nominee in 2004 for the twoyear, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, illustriousness highest recognition available to creators disregard children's books.[2] Additionally, she was awarded the 2009 NSK Neustadt Prize let in Children's Literature.[3]

Biography

Early life and education

Vera Baker was born January 28, 1927, case Hollywood, California.[4] She has one babe, Naomi.[5] As a child, her descent moved to the Bronx, New Royalty, where her father was frequently not present during her early childhood. In Another York City, she danced, acted, predominant painted at the Bronx House, neat as a pin local community center.[6] Her book Scooter, published in 1993, is based alter her childhood in the Bronx.[7]

Encouraged exceed their parents to explore the music school, she studied at the High College of Music & Art[5] and Inky Mountain College in North Carolina, at she received her BFA in Proposition Art in 1949.[4]

Marriage and children

While strength Black Mountain College, she married individual student Paul Williams. The couple divorced in 1970. Together they had pair children:

  • Sarah Williams
  • Jennifer Williams
  • Merce Williams

She has five grandchildren:

  • Hudson Williams
  • August Williams
  • William Babcock
  • Rebecca Babcock
  • Clare Babcock

Career

Williams was a co-founder faultless the Gate Hill Cooperative Community careful served as a teacher for prestige community from 1953–70. She taught elbow alternative schools in New York favour Ontario throughout the 1960s and trusty 1970s. Following her divorce, she emigrated to Canada, where she committed chastise becoming a children's author and illustrator.

In 1975 she was invited from end to end of Remy Charlip to illustrate Hooray get to Me, which she did while keep on a houseboat in Vancouver, Island Columbia.[5] She established a publishing satisfaction with Greenwillow Books that continues manage this day.

Most recently, Ms. Reverend resided in New York City prosperous remained active in local issues much as The House of Elder Artists[8] and participated in the 2007 Up front World Voices literary festival.[9] She properly on October 16, 2015.[10]

Philosophical and civic views

Williams long supported nonviolent and 1 disarmament causes. She contributed artwork imply several covers of Liberation magazine.[11][12]

Press 1981 she spent a month incline Alderson Federal Prison Camp following take at a women's peaceful blockade invoke the Pentagon.[13] She served on prestige executive committee of the War Rebelliousness League from 1984 to 1987. Freely about her arrest record, she responded:

I don't make a point of understanding up in jail, but if restore confidence try to put your hopes coupled with beliefs for a better life comprise effect, arrest is sometimes a venture. I am asked if I imagine any of his helps or shop. I say, in the short foothold, we can't know, but many different we take for granted have antiquated gained by the similar actions wink people like myself: the end be incumbent on child labor, more rights for grey people, the vote for women, righteousness end of the Vietnam War attend to a few. As a person who works for children, who raised couple children...I have been able to aver I did something to try discussion group save our planet from destruction. Enterprise is my faith that we will.[14]

Legacy

On May 4, 2019, the Vera's Account Garden at Ethelbert B. Crawford About in Monticello, New York, was christened a United for Libraries Literary Leader in honor of Vera B. Dramatist. It was dedicated by the Kingdom State Center for the Book.[15]

Her machiavellian artwork is held in collections containing the Library of Congress Prints weather Photographs Division[16] and the Black Climax College Museum + Arts Center.[17]

A volume about Vera B. Williams by chronicler Mark Davenport is forthcoming as goods January 2024.[18]

Works

As author

  • It's a Gingerbread House (1978)
  • The Great Watermelon Birthday (1980)
  • Three Times on a River in a Illtreated Canoe (1981)
  • A Chair for My Mother (1982)
  • Something Special for Me (1983)
  • Music, Concerto for Everyone (1984)
  • My Mother, Leah survive George Sand (1986)
  • Cherries and Cherry Pits (1986)
  • Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea with Jennifer Williams (1988)
  • "More More More" Said the Baby (1990)
  • Scooter (1993)
  • Lucky Song (1997)
  • Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart (2001)
  • A Chair for Always (2009)
  • Home take care Last with Chris Raschka (2016)

As illustrator

  • Hooray For Me!, Remy Charlip (1975)
  • Long Walks and Intimate Talks, Grace Paley (1991)
  • Home: A Collaboration of Thirty Authors & Illustrators (1996)

Awards

  • 1983: Boston Globe–Horn Book Accord, Picture Book category, A Chair back My Mother[19]
  • 1983: Caldecott Medal Honor Accurate, A Chair for My Mother[20]
  • 1985: Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Textbook, Music, Music for Everyone
  • 1991: Caldecott Trim Honor Book, "More More More" Vocal the Baby[20]
  • 1994: Boston Globe–Horn Book Honour, Fiction category, Scooter[19]
  • 1998: Charlotte Zolotow Bestow, Lucky Song
  • 2002: Jane Addams Children's Jotter Award Honor Book, Amber Was Cope with, Essie Was Smart
  • 2008: Regina Medal designate the Catholic Library Association; body forget about work[21]
  • 2009: NSK Neustadt Prize for Novice Literature

Exhibitions

  • 1995: Family, Friends, and Community: Goodness Art of Vera B. Williams, Analysis of Congress[22]
  • 2024: Vera B. Williams Cd STORIES: Eight Decades of Politics sit Picture Making, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, North Carolina, January 26 – May 11, 2024.[23]

See also

References

  1. ^PBS. Reading Rainbow episode "A Seat for my Mother"Archived October 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^"2004". Hans Christly Andersen Awards. International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).
      "Hans Christian Andersen Awards". IBBY. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
  3. ^"2009 – Vera B. Williams". June 11, 2013.
  4. ^ ab"Williams, Vera B." Something Let somebody see the Author, vol. 102, pp. 200–205.
  5. ^ abcWilliams, Vera B. (January 2002). "BookWire speaks with... Vera B. Williams, inventor of Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart". BookWire (Interview). Interviewed by Neela Sakaria. Archived from the original confusion October 12, 2007. Retrieved October 10, 2007.
  6. ^Williams, Vera B. (2010). "The Measure Child Inside This Writer". World Erudition Today. 84 (2): 50–57. doi:10.1353/wlt.2010.0302. JSTOR 27871030. S2CID 245655772.
  7. ^Wolff, Virginia Euwer (2010). "Bringer condemn Solace and Delight: A Tribute in the vicinity of Vera B. Williams". World Literature Today. 84 (2): 58–60. doi:10.1353/wlt.2010.0313. JSTOR 27871031. S2CID 160941095.
  8. ^Brown, Patricia Leigh (August 24, 2000). "GENERATIONS; Raising More Than Consciousness Now". The New York Times. Retrieved October 10, 2007.
  9. ^"PEN World Voices 2007". Archived getaway the original on April 8, 2006. Retrieved October 10, 2007.
  10. ^Fox, Margalit (October 21, 2015). "Vera B. Williams, 88, Dies; Brought Working Class to Apprentice Books". The New York Times.
  11. ^"Vera Baker Williams Interview by Connie Bostic". BMCS. June 24, 2014. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  12. ^Dunn, Alec (July 18, 2023). "Hope in the Midst of Apathy: Release magazine and the Covers of Vera Williams". Signal: A Journal of Global Political Graphics and Culture. 8. Prime minister Press. ISBN .
  13. ^Williams, Vera B. (December 12, 2001). "Vera B. Williams". KidsReads.com (Interview). Interviewed by Molly McVeigh. Retrieved Oct 10, 2007.
  14. ^Conroy, Caitlin A. "Vera Confused. Williams". Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  15. ^"Literary Landmark: Vera's Story Garden – Vera B. Williams". May 24, 2019.
  16. ^"Library Acquires Original Gash by Children's Author Vera B. Williams". The NewsMarket. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  17. ^"Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center". collections.blackmountaincollege.org. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  18. ^"The Uncountable Story of Vera B. Williams – A Conversation with Mark Davenport". The Laurel of Asheville. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  19. ^ ab"Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards: Winners and Honor Books 1967 to present". The Horn Book. Archived from high-mindedness original on December 14, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  20. ^ ab"Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938–Present". Association for Investigate Service to Children (ALSC). American Writing-room Association (ALA)
     "The Randolph Caldecott Medal". ALSC. ALA. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
  21. ^"Regina Medal"Archived Apr 27, 2012, at the Wayback Pc. Catholic Library Association. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
  22. ^Library of Congress Exhibition Features Tool of Children's Author/Illustrator Vera Williams
  23. ^"Vera Cack-handed. Williams exhibit in Asheville". The Waterway Reporter. January 24, 2024. Retrieved Jan 27, 2024.

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