![]() ![]() Following her divorce, she emigrated to Canada, where she committed to becoming a children's author and illustrator. ![]() She taught at alternative schools in New York and Ontario throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Williams was a co-founder of the Gate Hill Cooperative Community and served as a teacher for the community from 1953–70. While at Black Mountain College, she married fellow student Paul Williams. Encouraged by their parents to explore the arts, she studied at The High School of Music & Art and Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where she received her BFA in Graphic Art in 1949. Her book Scooter, published in 1993, is based on her childhood in the Bronx. In New York City, she danced, acted, and painted at the Bronx House, a local community center. As a child, her family moved to the Bronx, New York, where her father was frequently absent during her early childhood. Vera Baker was born January 28, 1927, in Hollywood, California. Additionally, she was awarded the 2009 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. ![]() nominee in 2004 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. For her lifetime contribution as a children's illustrator she was U.S. ![]() Her best known work, A Chair for My Mother, has won multiple awards and was featured on the children's television show Reading Rainbow. Vera Baker Williams (Janu– October 16, 2015) was an American children's writer and illustrator. ![]()
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