The recipient of a 1993 Newbery Honor award for the short stories gathered in The Dark-Thirty (1992), McKissack has also won several Coretta Scott King awards, as well as a Caldecott Honor for her picture book Mirandy and Brother Wind (1988). Regularly using the stories of her own family's history in the United States as inspiration, McKissack's works seek to invigorate the underrepresented canon of African- American literature for young readers, particularly through her biographical accounts of great persons of African descent. The author of historical fiction and biographies for children, McKissack focuses on religious as well as African-American themes. McKissack has written over one hundred titles under her own name, as well as in collaboration with her husband, Fredrick L. For further information on her life and career, see CLR, Volumes 23 and 55. The following entry presents an overview of McKissack's career through 2007. (Full name Patricia Carwell McKissack has also written under the pseudonym L'Ann Carwell) American author of juvenile biographies, juvenile fiction, juvenile nonfiction, juvenile short stories, and picture books.
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