![]() ![]() ![]() “Because it was independent study, I developed research skills that I would use in my literary career… At AU, I began to learn to make my own way. While at AU, Weatherford was in the University Learning Center independent study program, where she could design her own degree and major. Weatherford declares, “It was the book I was born to write.” But Weatherford’s proudest accomplishment was writing Becoming Billie Holiday, a book of biographical poems chronicling the singer’s early life, which won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor. She has penned numerous books, mostly aimed at children and young adults, and she has won countless accolades, including the NAACP Image Award. ![]() ![]() Though her cloak and dagger aspirations of espionage faded with childhood, Weatherford’s dream of writing remained strong. But those were ‘boy toys.’ I couldn’t have a 007 spy kit, but when I read Harriet the Spy, I realized I could have a notebook. “James Bond flicks were just coming out, spy toys were being developed. That’s how she spied she wrote,” Weatherford recalls. Growing up in the 1960s, professor and award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford, KSB/BA ’77, aspired to be many things but says she always was a writer, citing Harriet the Spy as an inspiration: “She was a writer. (Photo courtesy of Carole Boston Weatherford) ![]()
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