Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of the
Children's Defense Fund. She is the author of the #1 New York Times
bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and
Yours and eight other books. She is the winner of many awards for
her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer
Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a Niebuhr Award. In 2000,
she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F.
Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings. Edelman is a
graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School. She and her
husband live in Washington, DC, and have three children and four
grandchildren.
Barry Moser is the prizewinning illustrator and designer of more
than three hundred books for children and adults. He is widely
celebrated for his dramatic wood engravings for the only
twentieth-century edition of the entire King James Bible
illustrated by a single artist. He lives in western Massachusetts.
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