August 12, 1937 - July 1, 2014
African-American writer of children's and young adult fiction and nonfiction
Author of "The Scorpion" (for which he won a Newbery Honor in 1989), "Somewhere in the Darkness" (for which he won a Newbery Honor in 1993) and "The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy, the Chisholm Trail, 1871"
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