Irene Latham

Irene Latham is an American author who writes books for children. She settled in Alabama in 1984 after traveling the world with her family, and she holds social work degrees from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Alabama. Her books include African Town, a work of contemporary fiction, Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship, a poetry collection, and The Cat Man of Aleppo, a nonfiction history.