Tonya Bolden is an award-winning author who has written more than twenty historical books for adults and children, many of which focus on prominent African Americans, including Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington Carver, and Frederick Douglass. Her children's book Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl won the Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award and the James Madison Award, and her work has continued to garner much praise. A graduate of Princeton and Columbia, she grew up in Harlem.
