Biography on evelyn coleman

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Evelyn Coleman is the award-winning author of a dozen books for young readers as well as numerous short stories, essays and a novel for adults published over a long writing career.

A resident of Atlanta, she is the author most recently of "Freedom Train," a book for young readers, which was chosen in for inclusion on the Georgia Center for the Book's first list of "25 Books All Young Georgians Should Read." Her novel is a "touching, humorous portrait" of life in the segregated South of the s that focuses on a young white boy's awakening to the realities of race around him.

Evelyn Coleman was born in Burlington, NC in in her grandmother's home.

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Her parents built their home right next door, and that is where she grew up. Her mother was a school teacher and helped inspire young Evelyn with the importance and fun of reading. In a writing career than spans more than three decades, she has written a series of young adult and juvenil