Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
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Becoming Ezra Jack Keats

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Becoming Ezra Jack Keats

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Becoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children's author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916–1983) intended for adult readers. Drawing extensively from his unpublished autobiography and letters, Becoming Ezra Jack Keats covers the breadth of Keats's life, taking readers through his early years as the child of immigrant parents, his introduction to illustration and writing, and the full arc of his remarkable career.Beyond a standard biography, this volume presents a time capsule of the political, social, and economic issues evolving during the span of Keats's lifetime. It also addresses his trailblazing commitment to representation and diversity, most notably in his work The Snowy Day, which won the Caldecott Medal as the first full-color picture book to feature a Black child as the protagonist. Keats far surpassed his father's prediction that he would be a starving artist. Instead, as shown in Becoming Ezra Jack Keats, he is now regarded as one of the most influential figures in children's literature, having published twenty-two books translated into sixteen languages, all featuring the diversity he saw in the children outside the window of his Brooklyn studio.

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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Year
2023
ISBN
9781496844774
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. BECOMING EZRA JACK KEATS
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1. Shaky Start: Art and Illness
  9. Chapter 2. At Home and School
  10. Chapter 3. Life on Vermont Street
  11. Chapter 4. Hard Changes and Opportunities
  12. Chapter 5. Refuge in High School
  13. Chapter 6. Uncertain Days
  14. Chapter 7. Looking for Himself
  15. Chapter 8. Starving Artist?
  16. Chapter 9. A Story in the Snow
  17. Chapter 10. Reactions to The Snowy Day
  18. Chapter 11. Many Books
  19. Chapter 12. The Japanese Connection
  20. Chapter 13. Many Letters, Many Roads
  21. Afterword
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Source Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index
  26. ABOUT THE AUTHOR