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Brenda Wilkinson Papers
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Collection
Identifier: CLRC-1653
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the typescript for Definitely Cool.
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Biographical Sketch
Brenda Wilkinson was born on January 1, 1946 in Moultrie, Georgia. She is a writer of young adult and children's literature and poetry. Ms. Wilkinson is best known for her Ludelltrilogy.
Biographical Source: Something About the Author, vol. 91, pp. 210-212.
Extent
4 folders
Additional Description
Abstract
Collection contains the typescript for Definitely Cool.
Arrangement
Materials arranged by published title
Physical Location
See Detailed Descriptions for Each Title Item for Box Locations
Accession Information:
Donated by the author in 1993.
Gift of: Wilkinson, Brenda Scott
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title
- Brenda Wilkinson Papers
- Author
- Karen Spilman
- Date
- 02/14/2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
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Brenda Wilkinson Papers, CLRC-1653. Children's Literature Research Collect
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Brenda Wilkinson
American writer
BrendaScott Wilkinson (born 1946) is an American writer of books for children and young adults. She is known for her Ludell trilogy of young adult novels, the first of which was a finalist for the 1976 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
Early life and education
[edit]Brenda Scott Wilkinson was born in 1946 in Moultrie, Georgia.[1][2] She was the second of eight children born to Malcolm and Ethel Scott.[3] Her family then moved across the state to Waycross, where she graduated high school in 1963.[4] Then, as part of the Great Migration, Wilkinson moved to New York, where she worked for a bank and took night classes at Hunter College.[3][4] She married a military man and had two daughters, Kim and Lori, and spent a brief stint in Alaska when her husband was stationed there.[3][4][5]
Career
[edit]As Wilkinson's marriage began to fall apart, she was inspired by the Black Arts Movement and began attending writing workshops, studying with the poet Sonia Sanchez.[4][6] When Sanchez gave Wilkinson an opportunity to read her poetry at an event that, unbeknownst to her, had editors from Harper & Row Publish