Harlem Stomp!
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BIOGRAPHIES
Laban Carrick Hill has been researching the Harlem Renaissance for more than a decade. Harlem Stomp! is the result of this work. The author of nearly twenty novels for young adults, he has also taught writing at Columbia University, Baruch College, and St. Michael’s College in Vermont. His poems have been included in the Contemporary Poetry of New England anthology and in numerous literary magazines, including the Tar River Review, the Denver Quarterly, and American Letters and Commentary.
Award-winning poet and activist Nikki Giovanni is one of the most beloved and influential writers of our time. In a career spanning more than thirty years, she has produced many books of poetry for children and adults, including Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems, and Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech University.
Celebrated illustrator Christopher Myers is the recipient of the Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Honor Awards for illustration. He has written and illustrated several books for children, including Harlem: A Poem, Black Cat, and Wings.