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Tonya Bolden Biography

Tonya Bolden is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on March 1, 1959 in New York, United States.

Tonya Bolden was born on March 1, 1959 in New York City to Willie J. and Georgia C. Bolden, who had moved to New York from North Carolina and South Carolina, respectively. Georgia received formal education only through sixth grade, Willie through ninth. However, both were firmly dedicated to providing as many educational opportunities as possible to Tonya and her sister Nelta. Although her parents were careful with money, they were generous when it came to buying books, and Bolden specifically recalls that “whenever I came home with the list of books I wanted to buy at the Arrow Club book fair, they never, ever denied me.”

Tonya K. Bolden (born March 1, 1959) is an American writer best known for her works of children’s literature, especially children’s nonfiction.

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Tonya Bolden Net Worth

Tonya is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tonya Bolden's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

Although she intended to earn a doctorate and become a professor of Russian literature, it was while in graduate school that Bolden’s work began appearing in print, at first mainly through freelance projects, notably in Black Enterprise magazine. In 1987, Bolden began writing full-time, putting her in a position in which, as she later recalls, “I could not be picky. I do not think I ever turned down any writing jobs no matter how small or seemingly insignificant.”

Bolden has authored, co-authored, collaborated on, or edited more than forty books. Hillary Rodham Clinton praised her 1998 book 33 Things Every Girl Should Know in a speech at Seneca Falls, N.Y. on the 150th anniversary of the first Women’s Rights Convention. Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl (2005), her children’s biography of Maritcha Rémond Lyons, was the James Madison Book Award Winner and one of four honor books for the American Library Association’s Coretta Scott King Author Award. M.L.K.: Journey of a King (2007) won the Orbis Pictus award from the National Council of Teachers of English, the organization’s highest award for children’s nonfiction, and the next year, her George Washington Carver (2008) was one of five honor books for the same award. In 2016, the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, D.C. selected Bolden for its Nonfiction Award in recognition of her entire body of work, which, according to the award, has “contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children.”.

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Following her graduation from Princeton, Bolden worked for two years before returning to school. She then continued her studies at Columbia. Bolden has suggested that, along with the multicultural setting of her childhood, her study of Russian in higher education deeply influenced her writing. She completed her M.A. in 1985, again in Slavic Languages and Literatures with a concentration in Russian.

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That sensibility manifests in many of her books, and Bolden has identified two books in particular in which readers can and, Bolden feels, should see the influence of Christianity. When discussing her 2001 book Rock of Ages: A Tribute to the Black Church, Bolden argued that “People shouldn’t have to wait until they are 20 or 30 to learn about the significance of the Black Church.” Elsewhere, she has confided that she “took a risk” in the way that she wrote her 2006 book M.L.K.: Journey of a King by emphasizing the role of the “supernatural” in King’s life: “many people prefer a King who is not so much of a Christian,” she explains.

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After graduating from the Chapin School, Bolden attended Princeton University, where, in 1981, she completed an undergraduate degree in Slavic Languages and Literature, with an emphasis on Russian.,

We, who truly care about the future of this nation, we who truly want our youngsters to be their best selves, we absolutely must become more involved in the campaign for all children to have mirrors—books in which they see themselves—and for all children to have windows—books through which they learn about people who do not look like them, speak as they do, or worship as they do—people who do not share their cultural norms.

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Tonya Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tonya Bolden celebrates birthday on March 1 of every year.

Central to the overwhelming majority of Bolden’s writing is an awareness of identity and the role that books can play in the formation and revision of identity. In a 2014 essay entitled “All the Children Need All the Books,” Bolden borrows a set of terms from Rudine Sims Bishop to argue that

Where did Tonya Bolden go to college?

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What was the first book Tonya Bolden wrote?

In 1990, Bolden wrote her first book, The Family Heirloom Cookbook. In 1992, Bolden co-authored a children’s book entitled Mama, I Want to Sing with author, playwright, radio and TV personality Vy Higginsen, based on Higginsen’s musical.

Where did Tonya Bolden grow up?

Author and publisher Tonya Bolden was born in 1959 in New York City to Georgia Bolden, a homemaker, and Willie Bolden, a garment center shipping manager. She grew up in Harlem in a musical family and always loved to read.

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