Tonya Bolden is an American writer best known for children's nonfiction, with more than forty books authored, co-authored, or edited. Her biography Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl (2005) was a James Madison Book Award winner and a Coretta Scott King honor book, and M.L.K.: Journey of a King (2007) won the Orbis Pictus Award from the National Council of Teachers of English. Her other titles include 33 Things Every Girl Should Know and No Small Potatoes, about Junius G. Groves and his Kansas potato farm.
