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Marilyn Nelson, author portrait
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Marilyn Nelson

Marilyn Nelson is a three-time National Book Award Finalist, has won a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor and several Coretta Scott King Honors, and has received several prestigious poetry awards, including the Poets' Prize and the Robert Frost Medal. She has recently been a judge of poetry applicants at the National Endowment for the Arts and Yaddo, and has received three honorary doctorates.
A is for Oboe: The Orchestra's Alphabet
Lubaya's Quiet Roar
How I Discovered Poetry
American Ace

Books

A is for Oboe: The Orchestra's Alphabet
Lubaya's Quiet Roar
How I Discovered Poetry
American Ace