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PORTLAND, Maine – Maine author Phillip Hoose, 62, said winning a National Book Award for his chronicle of a young civil rights pioneer was all the more moving because she took the stage with him when he accepted the honor.
Hoose won the young people’s literature award for “Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice” at the 60th annual National Book Awards this week.
He based his book on the true story of Claudette Colvin, who as a 15-year-old schoolgirl was dragged off a bus in Montgomery, Ala., for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman.
Partly told in Colvin’s voice, the book relates the indignity the teen felt when she had to heed the bus driver’s orders on a trip she routinely took to and from school every day.
Hoose, 62, has written nine books and was a finalist the same award in 2001.
