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About Patricia
Patricia Hruby Powell toured world-wide as a dancer, who spoke in her dances before becoming a storyteller, who danced in her stories.
She has been a lithographer, a librarian, and the author of Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker which earned five starred reviews and won a Robert F. Sibert Nonfiction Honor, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor, and Parent’s Choice Gold for Poetry.
She is also the author of the YA documentary novel Loving vs. Virginia which was an Indie Next Pick; Struttin’ With
Some Barbecue, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book; and Lift As You Climb, a picture book biography of Ella Baker. All four books are Junior Library Guild Selections.
Her previous three books are retold folktales and her forthcoming books center on strong women: Martha Graham, Women’s Suffrage, Ella Fitzgerald, and a compilation of poems that tells a story about the ducks and geese who nest each year in her backyard. She teaches writing at the college level.
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