Ray Anthony Shepard
Publications
About Ray
Ray Anthony Shepard’s picture book biography Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge was a 2022 Jane Addams Peace Association Honor Book, a Notable Book by the Association for Library Services to Children, and the National Council for the Social Studies/Children’s Book Council Notable Book. His young adult biography Now or Never! 54th Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery was a Carter J. Woodson Honor Book and selected by the Massachusetts Center for the Book as a “Must Read.” His young adult verse biography, A Long Time Coming: A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama, will be published next year.