Alice Faye Duncan
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ALICE FAYE DUNCAN is a National Board Library Media Specialist who writes for young learners. Since 1995, she has written 15 picture books that are celebrated for inspiring messages, vivid imagery, and musical lyricism. As a motivational speaker and historian, she travels the nation, speaking to children and adults. Her Juneteenth book, OPAL LEE AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE FREE is a bestseller, having sold 100,000 copies since January 2022. Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop received a Coretta Scott King Honor Medal in 2019. Yellow Dog Blues was a New York Times and New York Public Library Best Illustrated Picture Book in 2022. Evicted was a Bank Street Best Book Selection in 2022. Coretta’s Journey was a 2023 Horn Book Fanfare Selection. And in the Fall of 2023, Alice was featured on Good Morning America to speak about children, grief, and the joy found in her recent book, This Train is Bound for Glory. Alice served as a school librarian in the city of Memphis for 30 years. She earned her first job and wrote her first picture book in 1992. However, her serious intention to write professionally began at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) during Library School when she served as a graduate assistant for professor, Glenn Estes. The UTK School of Information Science honored Alice as a "Distinguished Alumni" in 2024. She has been featured and reviewed in publications like the Boston Globe, the Dallas Morning News, the New York Times, and the Oxford American. While Alice travels for research and speaking, Memphis remains her home and her favorite place to write.
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