Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Date of Birth
TweetVaunda Micheaux Nelson
American writer
Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1953
Profession: writer, librarian, children's writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
- Vaunda Micheaux Nelson is an American writer known for her fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults.
- She was the winner of the 2010 Coretta Scott King Award and Gelett Burgess Children's Book Honor for her non-fiction book Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S.
- Marshal about the life of Bass Reeves.
- Nelson is also the author of The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore.
- Her book Who Will I Be, Lord? received a Charlotte Zolotow Award Commendation in 2010.She is a youth services librarian at the public library in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, where she lives with her husband.
- She is the grand-niece of brothers Solomon Lightfoot Michaux, better known as Elder Michaux, minister and advisor to presidents, and Lewis H Michaux, the pioneer Harlem bookseller.
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