![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She now devotes her time to her family, writing, and what she terms the family ranch” in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Taylor has worked as a proofreader-editor and as program coordinator for an international house and a community free school. At the University of Colorado’s School of Journalism, she helped created a Black Studies program and taught in the program for two years. After graduating from the University of Toledo, she served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia for two years and then spent the next year traveling throughout the United States, working and recruiting for the Peace Corps. Her first book, Song of the Trees, received the Council on Interracial Books award her second, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, was a winner of the Newbery Medal. Mildred Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and grew up in Toledo, Ohio. Available in used condition with free US shipping on orders over 10. Taylor was named the First Laureate of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature. Buy Song of the Trees By Mildred D Taylor. Taylor is an author of nine novels including The Road to Memphis. Times Book Prize and the PEN Award for Children’s Literature. Taylors Song of the Tree: Role of Women in Protection of Nature. Taylor is the author of nine novels including The Road to Memphis, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Land, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Her books have won numerous awards, among them a Newbery Medal (for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry), four Coretta Scott King Awards, and a Boston GlobeHorn Book Award. ![]()
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