a friendship for today by patricia c mckissack

After traveling to Missouri, McKissack attended Webster University and graduated with a M.A. They were married on December 12, 1965, and started their family right away. She graduated with an English degree in 1964 while Fredrick obtained a civil engineering degree. While attending Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University now known as the Tennessee State University, McKissack met up with a childhood friend, Fredrick McKissack, who would later become her husband. The library was one of the few places in downtown Nashville that was not segregated, so it became a place where McKissack always felt welcome and where she learned her love for reading. In Goin' Someplace Special, she recalled her favorite place to go as a child, which was the Nashville Public Library. Other stories, like Goin' Someplace Special (2000), incorporated McKissack's lived experiences. Many of the childhood stories she heard from her mother and grandparents later became stories she wrote as an author of books for children and young adults. Her grandfather's stories usually included the names of her and siblings Nolan and Sarah. She was inspired to be a writer by her mother, who liked to read her the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, and by her grandparents who told her many stories. Patricia L'Ann Carwell was born to parents Robert and Erma Carwell on August 9, 1944, in Smyrna, Tennessee. She also published under the names L'Ann Carwell, Pat McKissack, and Patricia C. Patricia McKissack was 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. Fredrick died in April 2013 at the age of 73.

In addition to her solo work, McKissack co-wrote many books with her husband, Fredrick, with whom she also co-won the Regina Medal in 1998.

What is Given from the Heart was published posthumously in 2019. Notable standalone works include Flossie & the Fox (1986), The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural (1992), and Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? (1992). She also wrote a novel for The Royal Diaries series: Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba. She was the author of over 100 books, including 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. 'Pat' McKissack ( née Carwell Aug– April 7, 2017) was a prolific African American children's writer. Children's literature, Biography, Historical fiction, Folktale

A friendship for today by patricia c mckissack