Lillie Patterson (May 3, 1917 – March 11, 1999) was an American writer who worked as a school and college librarian in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] She wrote 17 books for children and young adults including Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.[2] It won the very first Coretta Scott King Award.[3] She also wrote books about the Statue of Liberty, Coretta Scott King, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington.[1][4]
She grew up listening to her grandmother telling stories in Hilton Head, South Carolina.[1]
Patterson was African-American. She received a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia in the 1940s and a graduate degree in library services from the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. in the 1950s. She also studied at the Johns Hopkins University and New York University.[1] In 1963 she received the Living Maker of Negro History Award from the Iota Phi Lambda sorority. She also won a Professional Award from the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs in Baltimore and the Helen Keating Award in 1985 from the Church and Synagogue Library Association.[1]
Works
edit- Meet Miss Liberty (1962)
- David: The Story of a King (1985)
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Hilson Jr, Robert (March 14, 1999). "Lillie Patterson, 82, educator and author of 16 books". The Baltimore Sun.
- ^ "Lillie Patterson, author, educator, and librarian, Baltimore". Digital Maryland. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
- ^ "Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970-Present | Coretta Scott King Roundtable". www.ala.org. Retrieved 2024-10-22.
- ^ "Lillie G Patterson". FamilySearch.org. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
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