Carole Boston Weatherford
BIO
The daughter of a printer, CAROLE BOSTON WEATHERFORD was practically born with ink in her blood. She began writing at age 6 and soon after saw her poems in print. Her 80-plus books have garnered 2 NAACP Image Awards and 18 American Library Association Youth Media Awards, including a Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Award and 4 Caldecott Honors. Her career achievements have been recognized with the North Carolina Award for Literature, the Nonfiction Award from the Children’s Book Guild and induction into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. The 2026-2026 Young People’s Poet Laureate and retired English professor lives in Maryland.
She is a New York Times best-selling author and has more than 75 books that have received a combined 11 American Youth Media Awards, including Newbery Honor and Caldecott Honors, Sibert Honors and Coretta Scott King Awards. Among her acclaimed titles are KIN: Rooted in Hope, BOX: Unspeakable Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, Freedom in Congo Square, Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. Two-time NAACP Image Award winner, Carole teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina.
CROWNING GLORY: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK HAIR
Through rhyming text and vibrant collage art, Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair by the award-winning duo of Carole Boston Weatherford and Ekua Holmes shows how Black hairstyles embody beauty and loving ritual, culture and community, expression and strength, patience and boundless creativity. Crowning Glory brings an array of gorgeous hair designs—and the individuals who wear them—to bold and powerful life.