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TITLE: Pinkney Family I
SPEAKER: Gloria Jean Pinkney: Jerry, Sandra
EVENT DATE: 10/12/2002
RUNNING TIME: 14 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Speaker Biography: 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.
Speaker Biography: 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.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2002