Mildred D. Taylor

Mildred D. Taylor is an American young adult novelist best known for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, which won the Newbery Medal in 1977 and is part of her Logan family series. Her books explore family and racism faced by African Americans in the Deep South in ways accessible to young readers. Other Logan titles include The Land, Song of the Trees, and The Gold Cadillac, and in 2003 she received the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature.