Patricia McKissack - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	09-August-1944
Place of Birth	Smyrna (Rutherford County, Tennessee)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Patricia Mckissack, Pat McKissack, L'Ann Carwell, Patricia L'Ann McKissack, Patricia C Mckissack
Profession	Writer
Patricia McKissack is an American children's writer. She is the author of three Dear America books: A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The Great Migration North, and Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl. She has also written a novel for The Royal Diaries series: Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba. Patricia currently lives in St. Louis. Her husband, Frederick McKissack, with whom she co-won the Regina Medal in 1998, died in April of 2013 at the age of 73; before marrying her and joining her in writing full time, he had an accomplished career as a U.S. Marine, a civil engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and had owned a contracting business in the St. Louis area. Patricia McKissack is also a board member of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance, a national not-for-profit that actively advocates for literacy, literature, and libraries.

Awards by Patricia McKissack

Check all the awards nominated and won by Patricia McKissack.

2008

Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Children's	Friendship For Today

2004

Nominations 2004 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors	Days of Jubilee

2000

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors	Black Hands, White Sails

1999

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Children's

Honored for : Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Children's	Let My People Go: Bible Stories Told by a Freeman of Color

1997

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors

1995

Coretta Scott King Award for Authors

Honored for : Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors	Black Diamond
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors	Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters

1993

Coretta Scott King Award for Authors

Honored for : The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

John Newbery Medal

Honored for : The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

Nominations 1993 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors
John Newbery Medal	The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors	The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

1990

Jane Addams Children's Book Award

Honored for : A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter

Coretta Scott King Award for Authors

Honored for : A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors	A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter

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