Harriette gillem robinet biography for kids

Harriette Gillem Robinet is best known for creating historical fiction in which she portrays African-American children and adults living in pivotal times in U.S.

history. Her works have won numerous awards, including the Carl Sandburg Award, the Scott O'Dell Award for children's historical fiction, and the Jane Addams Award. The collection contains first editions of her work.

Harriette Gillem Robinet was born in Washington, D.C.

in , the daughter of a history teacher. As a child, she would spend summers in Arlington, Virginia, where she learned that her grandparents were slaves who had worked under Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Robinet's father suggested she actively follow the news, keep a diary, and write a story every day.

Her father’s guidance helped to lay the ground work for Robinet’