Sharon M. Draper Biography

As well as an accomplished writer,Dr. Sharon M. Draper is a professional educator. As the national Teacher of the Year she has been honoured as a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary Award and is a New York Times best-selling author. As Ohio's Outstanding High School Language Arts Educator and Ohio Teacherof the Year, she was selected and was chosen as a NCNW Excellence in Teaching Award winner. She is a Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award winner and was the Duncanson Artist in Residence for the Taft Museum. She is a YWCA Career Woman of Achievement and is the recipient of the Dean's Award from Howard University School of Education the Pepperdine University Distinguished Alumnus Award the Marva Collins Education Excellence Award and the Governor's Educational Leadership Award. Last year she was named Ohio Pioneer in Education by the Ohio State Department of Education and in 2008 she received the Beacon of Light Humanitarian award. In 2009 she received the doctor of laws degree from Pepperdine University.
She has been honored at the White House six times and was chosen as one of only four authors in the country to speak at the National Book Festival Gala in Washington DC and to represent the United States in Moscow at their Book Festival. Her book Copper Sun has been selected by the US State Department and the International Reading Association as the United States novel for the international reading project called Reading Across Continents. Students in the US Nigeria and Ghana are reading the book and sharing ideas—a true intercontinental cross-cultural experience."

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