February 13th, 2009 - 4:05 pm

Weatherford Books Win Awards

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A pair of books by Baltimore's Carole Boston Weatherford (Becoming Billie Holiday and Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane) won Coretta Scott King Awards this week at the American Library Association's Mid-Winter Conference in Denver. Baltimore readers know how much we like Weatherford's work, and this sort of acknowledgment is much deserved.