Fredrick McKissack

1939 – 2013

African American children's author with his wife Patricia -- to be distinguished from his son Fredrick L. McKissack, Jr. who also wrote some books with his mother.

• The royal kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay
• Carter G. Woodson
• George Washington Carver
• Madam C.J. Walker
• Messy Bessey and the birthday overnight
• The World in 1492
• Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters
• Constance Stumbles
• Country mouse and city mouse
• Frederick Douglass
• Fritter the wasteful beastie
• Louis Armstrong