ALVIN AILEY

ANDREA DAVIS PINKNEY

ISBN 10: 1562824139 / ISBN 13: 9781562824136

Published by hyperion, us, 1993

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double signed ( inscribed) with drawn pictured of Woman with hat.

Seller Inventory # 2572

Bibliographic Details

• Title: ALVIN AILEY
• Publisher: hyperion, us
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1562824139
• ISBN 13: 9781562824136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: brian pinkney
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: NF
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

An informative and inspiring biography of Alvin Ailey, the great African-American dancer and choreographer, created by TheNew York Times bestselling and award-winning duo Andrea David Pinkney and Brian Pinkey. 
 
Since he was a young boy in Navasota, Texas, Alvin Ailey loved to stomp his feed and clap his hands to the music of the True Vine Baptist choir. Later, he learned how to dance. He spent some time with the best teachers of the era and eventually started his own modern dance company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. 
 
This is the story of Alvin Ailey's life—a life that left its imprint as much on the history of the American people as on the history of modern dance.
 
Don't miss the other Great Black Performers biographies:
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
 

About the Author

Andrea Davis Pinkney has written several acclaimed books for middle grade readers, including the novels Bird in a Box, a Today Show Al Roker Book Club pick, and With the Might of Angels, a book in the Dear America series. She is also the author of the nonfiction book Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor winner. Andrea's many picture books include Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down, a New York Times best-seller and a Jane Addams Honor Book, which was illustrated by her husband, Brian Pinkney. She and her family live in Brooklyn, New York.

Brian Pinkney (www.brianpinkney.net) has frequently collaborated with his wife, Andrea Davis Pinkney. Some of their other books include, Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride, Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, and Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra, for which Brian was awarded a Caldecott Honor. Brian was also a Caldecott Honoree for The Faithful Friend by Robert D. San Souci, and he won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for In the Time of the Drums by Kim L.Siegelson.