Mildred D. Taylor
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Mildred Delois Taylor (born September 13, 1943 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an African American author, known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South. Mildred Taylor lived in Jackson, Mississippi then moved to Toledo, Ohio where she spent most of her childhood. She now lives in Colorado with her daughter. These anecdotes became very clear in Mildred’s mind. In fact, once she recalled that as the adults talked about the past “I began to visualize all the family who had once known the land, and I felt as if I knew them, too...” Taylor has talked about how much history was in the stories; some stories took place during times of slavery and some post-slavery.
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Taylor has written three novels about the Logan Family as they grow up in the 1930s and '40s: the 1977 Newberry Medal-winner Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and two Coretta Scott King Award-winners, Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Road to Memphis, and The Well. She has also written three short books (Song of the Trees, The Friendship, winner of both the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award and the Coretta Scott King Award, and Mississippi Bridge, which won the Christopher Award and was nominated for eleven state children's book awards) which tell of events in the lives of the Logan children, their parents and their neighbors. For another short novel, The Gold Cadillac, Taylor also received the Christopher Award.[1]
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- ^ Taken from The Well afterword Copyright 1995 by Mildred D. Taylor Published by Scholastic Inc.
