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Brian Pinkney
When Brian Pinkney was young, he often watched his father, Jerry Pinkney, at work in his studio and then drew and painted in his own "studio" - a closet fixed up with the art supplies that his father no longer used. Now Brian Pinkney is illustrator of more than two dozen children's books, writer-illustrator of three books, and winner of two Caldecott Honor Awards and a Coretta Scott King Illustrators Award. He has collaborated with his wife, children's book author Andrea Davis Pinkney, on several titles including Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra which won the 1999 Caldecott Honor Award and the 1999 Coretta Scott King Honor Award.