Jan Spivey Gilchrist
Jan Spivey Gilchrist had been
a painter and art educator for nearly twenty years before she entered the
children's book field in 1988, by illustrating Lessie Jones Little's
Children of Long Ago. That same year she received the Coretta Scott
King Award for her black and white pencil illustrations in Nathaniel
Talking, a collection of poems by Eloise Greenfield. Her other collaborations
with Eloise Greenfield include First Pink Light, I Make Music, My Daddy
and I, William and the Good Old Days, and Night on Neighborhood Street,
a poetry collection which was named a Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book
for both writing and illustration. Her artwork also graces Lucille Clifton's
Everett Anderson's Christmas Coming, Sharon Bell Mathis's Red
Dog Blue Fly: Football Poems (an American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists"),
and James Weldon Johnson's Lift Every Voice and Sing. Ms. Gilchrist
has exhibited her work in galleries throughout North America. In 1992 she
received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Eastern Illinois University.
Ms. Gilchrist was a featured panel speaker
at the Virginia Hamilton Conference in 1997.
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