![]() ![]() ![]() Grimes promoting her 2019 memoir Ordinary Hazards at the New England Independent Booksellers Association. And Grimes has written celebrated young adult novels, such as Bronx Masquerade (2002) and Garvey's Choice (2016) She writes picture books about charming little girls who refuse to go to bed, and ones that reflect her deeply felt Christian faith. ![]() Her biographies introduce kids to the lives of Black luminaries such as President Barack Obama, Malcolm X and the pioneering aviator Bessie Coleman. She's the 2022 winner of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Library Association. As a young writer in the 1970s, she was encouraged by a promising editor named Toni Morrison, one of the few Black gatekeepers at a major publishing house at the time.īut today Grimes is a serious author, who takes writing for children seriously. After all, she was still a teenager when she was mentored by James Baldwin, one of the greatest American novelists of all time. ![]() Grimes thought she was going to be a "serious" author. "Pretty good for someone who wasn't going to be in children's literature at all, " she says with a wry smile. She's ending it with the publication of her 103 rd book. Nikki Grimes, the winner of the ALA Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, has written more than 100 children's books.Īuthor Nikki Grimes started off her year by winning one of the top honors in children's literature. ![]()
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