Larry Dane Brimner is the recipient of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal for Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 and the Sibert Honor for Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Conner. Among his social justice titles for Calkins Creek are Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment; and Rebellion: Six Days of Rage & Rampage, Los Angeles, 1965. He splits his time between Tucson, AZ, and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Visit brimner.com.
