Andrea Davis Pinkney
Andrea Davis Pinkney majored in journalism and was a magazine editor and freelance writer before switching to writing children's literature. She is vice president of a New York publishing house and is author of more than a dozen children's books including Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters (2000) which won the 2001 Coretta Scott King Author Award. Ms. Pinkney and her husband, children's book illustrator and writer Brian Pinkney, have collaborated on several books and their latest is Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuoso (Hyperion, 2002). They make their home in New York City.
