Michael L. Cooper 

Michael L. Cooper was born in raised in southeastern Kentucky. He now lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Cooper is the author of the Golden Kite Award winner Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930s as well as Fighting for Honor: Japanese Americans and World War II (both Clarion). He is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Author’s Guild, PEN, the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, D.C., and the Organization of American Historians.

More interesting books created by Mr. Cooper:

Hero of the High Seas: John Paul Jones and the American Revolution (National Geographic)
Jamestown, 1607 (Holiday House)
Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp (Clarion)
Slave Spirituals and the Jubliee Singers (Clarion Books)

 www.michaellcooper.com