Description: The first full-length biography of a trailblazing DC attorney and judge
Brief description: Tonya Bolden has authored, coauthored, and edited more than fifty books for readers of various ages. Many of her titles have garnered starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and other publications. Her numerous awards include a Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC's Nonfiction Award for her body of work. This magna cum laude baccalaureate of Princeton University with a master's degree from Columbia University lives in New York City.
Review Quotes: A beautiful testament to a man who refused to accept the limitations that society attempted to place on him because he was born Black in Georgia during Jim Crow to a single mother whose family fled to DC to escape racial terror. He defied the odds to become a successful lawyer who shaped Supreme Court precedent, chief judge of the DC federal court, and an important reminder that your circumstances need not define you.--Michelle Coles, author of Black Was the Ink