Russell A. Freedman (October 11, 1929 – March 16, 2018) was an American biographer and the author of nearly 50 books for young people.
Later, Freedman worked as a reporter and editor for the Associated Press in San Francisco until the mid-1950s, when he took an advertising job in Manhattan.
It was during this time that Freedman wrote his first novel after reading an article about a blind teenage boy who invented a Braille typewriter.
[7] Freedman received the Carter G. Woodson Book Award in 2005 for The Voice that Challenged a Nation and in 2007 for Freedom Walkers.
[8] Lincoln: A Photobiography Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane Franklin Delano Roosevelt Indian Chiefs Kids At Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor An Indian Winter Children of the Wild West Buffalo Hunt The Life and Death of Crazy Horse Immigrant Kids Getting Born The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights