![]() ![]() “I believe all my life was in preparation for me to write a family history, much of which is based on my own family,” Taylor said of the Logan Family saga. Yet the family returned to their home state annually for summer visits, and that time spent with her Mississippi relatives, listening to the stories they told about their lives, was a formative part of her childhood, and paved the way for her creative journey. ![]() ![]() The series debuted in 1975 with Song of the Trees, a novella illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, and continued with the Newbery-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976), Let the Circle Be Unbroken (1981), The Road to Memphis (1990), and a prequel, The Land (2001).īorn in Mississippi in 1943, Taylor moved north with her parents and sister when she was three months old and grew up in Toledo, Ohio. Inspired by the author’s own family, the sequence follows an African-American Mississippi family through more than three decades and intertwines their story with that of the civil rights movement. Taylor, whose All the Days Past, All the Days to Come, the fifth and final novel in the Logan Family saga, is due from Viking on January 7 with a 100,000-copy first printing. “To be finished with a work that has taken my lifetime to tell is bittersweet,” said Mildred D. ![]()
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