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James E. Ransome was born in North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from Pratt Institute, New York. Mentored by Jerry Pinkney, Ransome went on to specialise in illustrating children’s books. He has illustrated more than 60 acclaimed picture books written by numerous authors, including many by his wife, Lesa Cline-Ransome. Three-times winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for his book illustrations, Ransome has also exhibited his work in group and solo shows across the United States. His work features in public and private collections of children’s book art, and his commissioned murals appear in The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinatti. Ransome was among the artists selected to create posters for the Metro-North Railroad series on the New York City subway.
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About the Illustrator
James E. Ransome was born in North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from Pratt Institute, New York. Mentored by Jerry Pinkney, Ransome went on to specialise in illustrating children’s books. He has illustrated more than 60 acclaimed picture books written by numerous authors, including many by his wife, Lesa Cline-Ransome. Three-times winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for his book illustrations, Ransome has also exhibited his work in group and solo shows across the United States. His work features in public and private collections of children’s book art, and his commissioned murals appear in The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinatti. Ransome was among the artists selected to create posters for the Metro-North Railroad series on the New York City subway.
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About the Illustrator
James E. Ransome was born in North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from Pratt Institute, New York. Mentored by Jerry Pinkney, Ransome went on to specialise in illustrating children’s books. He has illustrated more than 60 acclaimed picture books written by numerous authors, including many by his wife, Lesa Cline-Ransome. Three-times winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for his book illustrations, Ransome has also exhibited his work in group and solo shows across the United States. His work features in public and private collections of children’s book art, and his commissioned murals appear in The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinatti. Ransome was among the artists selected to create posters for the Metro-North Railroad series on the New York City subway.
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About the Illustrator
James E. Ransome was born in North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from Pratt Institute, New York. Mentored by Jerry Pinkney, Ransome went on to specialise in illustrating children’s books. He has illustrated more than 60 acclaimed picture books written by numerous authors, including many by his wife, Lesa Cline-Ransome. Three-times winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for his book illustrations, Ransome has also exhibited his work in group and solo shows across the United States. His work features in public and private collections of children’s book art, and his commissioned murals appear in The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinatti. Ransome was among the artists selected to create posters for the Metro-North Railroad series on the New York City subway.
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About the Illustrator
James E. Ransome was born in North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from Pratt Institute, New York. Mentored by Jerry Pinkney, Ransome went on to specialise in illustrating children’s books. He has illustrated more than 60 acclaimed picture books written by numerous authors, including many by his wife, Lesa Cline-Ransome. Three-times winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for his book illustrations, Ransome has also exhibited his work in group and solo shows across the United States. His work features in public and private collections of children’s book art, and his commissioned murals appear in The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinatti. Ransome was among the artists selected to create posters for the Metro-North Railroad series on the New York City subway.
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About the Illustrator
James E. Ransome was born in North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from Pratt Institute, New York. Mentored by Jerry Pinkney, Ransome went on to specialise in illustrating children’s books. He has illustrated more than 60 acclaimed picture books written by numerous authors, including many by his wife, Lesa Cline-Ransome. Three-times winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for his book illustrations, Ransome has also exhibited his work in group and solo shows across the United States. His work features in public and private collections of children’s book art, and his commissioned murals appear in The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinatti. Ransome was among the artists selected to create posters for the Metro-North Railroad series on the New York City subway.
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Octavia E. Butler was born in California in 1947. As a teenager Butler attended the Clarion workshop in Milford, Pennsylvania, and it was here that she was first encouraged to write science fiction. Butler’s first novel, Patternmaster (1976), became part of a five-volume collection including Mind of My Mind (1977) and Wild Seed (1980). Butler wrote 15 novels in total, as well as several short stories and essays. Her best-known works include Kindred (1979) and Bloodchild (1984), which won both a Nebula and Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Butler received international acclaim for most of her stories, many of which examine issues around race and gender through the lens of science fiction. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship award. Later in her life Butler began to teach writing, including at the Clarion workshop where she first studied. In 2005 she was inducted into the International Black Writers Hall of Fame at Chicago State University. Butler died in Seattle in 2006.
Tananarive Due, born in Florida, is an American author and educator. She received a BS in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, and an MA in English and Nigerian Literature from the University of Leeds. Due’s books include The Between (1995), The Good House (2003) and My Soul To Take (2011). Due has won numerous awards for her writing, including an American Book Award and a British Fantasy Award. She now teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA.