Patricia C. McKissack Wins the 1st Annual PEN/Steven Kroll Award
September 18, 2012
Patricia C. McKissack has won the first annual PEN/Steven Kroll Award for her book, Never Forgoten. This yearly award honors an author who penned the text of an outstanding illustrated children's book. The late Leo Dillon and his wife Diane Dillon, Ph.D. created the artwork for this book.
"The annual award will be confered for the first time in 2012 and will award a prize of $5,000. It acknowledges an American or U.S.-based writer for exceptional text illustrated in a picture book. The winner will be chosen by a panel of three judges, who will be selected by PEN’s Awards Committee in consultation with PEN’s Children’s/Young Adult Book Authors Committee, as well as the donor for the award, Kathleen Beckett, Kroll’s widow."