Illustrator Floyd Cooper Dies: Award-winning author/illustrator Floyd Cooper has died at age 64. In 2009, he was named the Coretta Scott King Award recipient for The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas; he also received multiple Coretta Scott King Honors. His most recent book, Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carol Boston Weatherford, was named a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award honor book. Floyd Cooper Has Died; Children's Literature World in Mourning Again | School Library Journal (slj.com).
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