Carole Boston Weatherford

Carole Boston Weatherford is an American author, critic, and poet who has written mostly nonfiction and poetry for children. The music of poetry drives much of Weatherford's work, and titles such as Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins, Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, and The Roots of Rap show a range that reaches into history and biography. Weatherford won the 2022 Coretta Scott King Award for Author for Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre and received the Children's Literature Legacy Award in 2025.