Jewell Parker Rhodes
Nato: March 11, 1954 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Jewell Parker Rhodes is an American novelist and educator whose work spans historical fiction, contemporary middle-grade literature, and themes of race, memory, disaster, and justice. She is best known for Ghost Boys, Ninth Ward, and Towers Falling; her award-winning books are widely taught and have had significant impact in schools and libraries.
Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore
Jewell Parker Rhodes emerged from a childhood shaped equally by hardship, family, and story. Raised largely by her grandparents in Pittsburgh’s Manchester neighborhood, she grew up in a crowded multigenerational household where her grandmother’s spoken stories and the library’s books became formative influences. She wrote her first handmade book at eight, later spent part of her youth in California, and, after a difficult adolescence, returned to Pittsburgh, where her grandmother helped her attend Carnegie Mellon. There she experienced a decisive intellectual awakening: after discovering Gayl Jones’s Corregidora, she shifted from dance and theater toward literary study, eventually earning bachelor’s, master’s, and Doctor of Arts degrees. ((https://jewellparkerrhodes.com/children/jewell-parker-rhodes-biography/))
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"Rhodes captures the all-too-real pain of racial injustice"
— School Library Journal. ((
"Jewell Parker Rhodes suggests ways the living can crack that fear"
— Nikki Grimes. ((
"Rhodes deftly captures a unique aspect of this historical event"
— School Library Journal. ((
"Parker Rhodes believably explores one Black girl's discovery of the wilderness"
— Publishers Weekly. ((
"Rhodes writes in short, poetic chapters; her hope for a better world packs a powerful punch"
— Publishers Weekly. ((
"Rhodes approaches a complex, painful topic with insight and grace"
— Publishers Weekly. ((
"In Will's Race for Home, Jewell Parker Rhodes tells a captivating, action-packed story"
— TIME for Kids. ((
"Rhodes has achieved something remarkable here: a kid's-eye-view of violence and racism"
— Chicago Tribune. ((
"Rhodes pulls off the difficult feat of making a well-known story new"
— Kirkus Reviews. ((
"In Dèja, Rhodes has created a curious, resilient character"
— Time. ((
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