Today the World Is Watching You: The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for School Integration, 1957 (Civil Rights Struggles Around the World)

Kekla Magoon is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award-winning author of The Rock and the River, a young adult novel set in the civil rights era. She holds a B.A. in history from Northwestern University and a master of fine arts in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Kekla visits schools and libraries around the country to speak about her work, and she teaches writing workshops to youth and adults. She serves as coeditor of Young Adult and Children's Literature for the arts journal Hunger Mountain.