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Q & A with Nikki Grimes By Jerome Ellison Murphy | Jan 05, 2021
During her decades-long career as a poet, novelist, journalist, and artist, Nikki Grimes has garnered numerous accolades, including the Coretta Scott King Award. Her work for young people is wide-ranging, from the picture book biographies Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope
, and Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice,
to such young adult novels as Bronx Masquerade
and the verse memoir Ordinary Hazards. As with Talkin’ About Bessie
, her illustrated biography about African American pilot Bessie Coleman, Grimes’s work often counteracts the erasure of African American lives. Grimes spoke with PW