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She now devotes her time to her family, writing, and what she terms the family ranch in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains..
Taylor has worked as a proofreader-editor and as program coordinator for an international house and a community free school.
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At the University of Colorado\'s School of Journalism, she helped created a Black Studies program and taught in the program for two years.
After graduating from the University of Toledo, she served in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia for two years and then spent the next year traveling throughout the United States, working and recruiting for the Peace Corps.
Mildred Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and grew up in Toledo, Ohio.
Taylor was named the First Laureate of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children\'s Literature.
In 2003, Ms.
Times Book Prize and the PEN Award for Children\'s Literature.
Her book The Land was awarded the L.
A.
Her books have won numerous awards, among them a Newbery Medal (for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ), four Coretta Scott King Awards, and a Boston Globe--Horn Book Award.
Taylor is the author of nine previous novels including The Road to Memphis , Let the Circle Be Unbroken , The Land , and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry .
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