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Who Was Louis armstrong?
[Paperback - 2004]
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Category: Children
Additional Category: People & Places - Children Performing Arts
Publisher: Penguin Workshop | ISBN: 9780448433684 | Pages: 112
Shipping Weight: .106 | Dimensions: 5.38 x .25 x 7.69 inches

If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong's own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year life spanned a critical time in American music as well as black history.

I live in Park Slope, Brooklyn and many of my novels take place here. But my new novel takes place in New Hampshire, and I have woven into it a historical component: the tragic story of Ruth Blay, who in 1768 was the last woman hanged in the state. When I read about Ruth, I was fascinated and horrified in equal measure, and I knew I had to write about her.I was educated at Vassar College and Columbia University, where I studied art history. But I started writing fiction in my 20's and never looked back. I am the author of seven novels, 27 books for children and am the editor of two essay collections. I'm also the fiction editor ofLilith Magazine. Please visit my website,http://www.yonazeldismcdonough.comor find me on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/yzmcdonough;I love to connect with readers everywhere.

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