Ashley F. Bryan (born July 13, 1923 - died February 4, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Most of his subjects are from the African American experience. He was U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and he won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for his contribution to American children's literature in 2009. Ashley Bryan's Freedom Over Me was short-listed for the 2016 Kirkus Prize and received a Newbery Honor.
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13 July 1923 New York, New York, USA
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Died |
4 February 2022 (aged 98)
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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