Angela Johnson is a three-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Author award, the Prinz prize, a MacArthur Foundation genius award, and numerous other book awards. She is the author of 40 books including picture books, middle school text books, poetry books, and young adult novels. This book introduces Johnson's work, illuminating its nuances through research and interviews and correspondence with Johnson. It provides readers with a detailed literary analysis of each work, with an emphasis on cultural insights and connections to African American literary history as well as a summation of published criticism of her work.