Mildred Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi on September 13, , to Wilbert Lee and Deletha Marie (Davis) Taylor. She later said she "was born in a segregated city in a segregated state in a segregated America." The Taylors had lived in Mississippi since the time of slavery. However, only three weeks after their daughter's birth, the Taylor family moved to Toledo, Ohio. Mildred Taylor remained there until graduating from the University of Toledo in

Several outbreaks of racially-motivated violence occurred in the Jackson area around September , and Taylor's father decided to seek a new life for his family in the North. He chose Toledo because he already had a large network of friends and relatives there. Even after their move, the Taylor family took long car trips to the South, and Mildred's experience of this environment provided the settings for her future novels.

In the South that the Taylors visited, segregation was a tangible reality. However, for Taylor, the South of racism and segregation was also a "South of family and community." Familial strength is an important theme in Taylor's books, and stories about her family (aunts, uncles, and great-grandparents), as told b

Mildred D. Taylor

Mildred Taylor, Photo by Nancy Jacobs

Major Works

  • All the Days Past, All the Days to Come ()
  • The Land () Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
  • Mississippi Bridge ()
  • The Well: David&#;s Story ()
  • The Road to Memphis ()
  • The Gold Cadillac: A Fancy New Car and an Unforgettable Drive ()
  • The Friendship ()
  • Let the Circle Be Unbroken ()
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry () Winner of Newberry Medal in
  • Song of the Trees ()
  • Guide for Using Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry in the Classroom (Taylor et al)

Mildred D. Taylor: A Biography

by Carrie Margaret Steele (SHS)

Mildred Taylor hugs her daughter Portia on Miildred Taylor Day in Mississippi, Photo by Nancy Jacobs

Mildred D. Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13, She is the daughter of Wilbert Lee and Deletha Marie (Davis) Taylor. Even though she was born in the South, she did not grow up there. Yet, for Ms. Taylor, the South still holds pleasant memories as the home of her family. When she was only three months old, her parents moved her and her sister to live in the North. They moved to a newly-integrated Ohio town called Toledo. When she went to school

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Mildred Delois Taylor is a critically acclaimed author of children&#x;s novels. Most of her works, which are based on her own family history, revolve around the close-knit Logan family, an African American family that rises above the indignities of racism through courage and love. In , Taylor won the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children&#x;s literature, for her historical novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Since , Taylor&#x;s fiction continued to portray the effects of racism counterbalanced with courage and love. In doing so, her fiction defied the political correctness of the s.

Taylor was born at home on September 13, in Jackson, Mississippi, where she joined her older sister Wilma. Their paternal great-grandfather, the son of a white Alabama plantation owner and a slave woman, had become a successful farmer in Mississippi. His large extended family thrived despite the racism they encountered. Yet Taylor&#x;s parents, Wilbert and Deletha, wanted their daughters to grow up in a less racist society. Delois, as her family called Mildred, was only four months old when they

Mildred D. Taylor facts for kids

For the American politician from New York, see Mildred F. Taylor.

Mildred DeLois Taylor (born September 13, ) is a Newbery Award-winning American young adult novelist. She is best known for her novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, part of her Logan family series.

Taylor is known for exploring powerful themes of family and racism faced by African Americans in the Deep South, in works that are accessible to young readers. She was awarded the Newbery Medal for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and the inaugural NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in In she received the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Library Association, and in , she won the Children's Literature Legacy Award.

Biography

Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in , and is the great-granddaughter of a former slave who was the son of an African-Indian woman and a white landowner. As a young child she moved to Toledo, Ohio, where she attended Toledo's public schools and eventually graduated from the University of Toledo in She then spent two years with the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, and, after returning to the United Sta

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