Monica Brown

Monica Brown is an American author of children's literature and an English professor at Northern Arizona University. She is known for the Lola Levine and Sarai chapter book series and for picture books such as Waiting for the Biblioburro and Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match, along with biographies of Celia Cruz, Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez. Her books have earned two Américas Awards and a Christopher Award, and her bicultural characters are written as whole people rather than as cultural fractions.