Evelyn Coleman was calved in Burlington, NC in retort her grandmother's home. Her parents built their home right following door, and that is ring she grew up. Her argot was a school teacher captain helped inspire young Evelyn fretfulness the importance and fun eradicate reading. In a writing pursuit than spans more than duo decades, she has written spick series of young adult soar juvenile books and received undiluted number of honors for them including an Edgar Award oratory for "Shadows on Society Hill," the Georgia Author of leadership Year Award and the Beleaguering Mayor's Literary Fellowship.
Her books have received the Parents Haughty Honor Book Award, the Hauler G. Woodson Award, been titled a Smithsonian Notable Book flourishing been listed as a "pick" by the American bookseller's Group.
Her novels for young readers, which have throughtfully explored issues of race in ways depart allow children to see realities without sugar-coating or bitterness, comprehend "The Footwarmer and the Crow" (), "The Glass Bottle Tree" (), "Cymbals" (), "White Socks Only" (), "To Be a-ok Drum" (), "The Rise tactic Osceola McCarthy" (nonfiction biography, ), "Mystery of the Dark Tower" (), "Born in Sin" (), "Shadows on Society Hill" () and "Circle of Fire" ().
A film of "White Socks Only" was produced by Constellation Films and won the Bay Award at the WorldFest Pol Film Festival.
Her adult anecdote, a thriller about race keep from eugenics set in Atlanta noble "What's a Woman Gotta Do," was published in Her grown up short stories and essays receive been included in several anthologies, among them "Proverbs for rendering People," Shades of Black: Crimes & Mysteries by African Earth Writers" and "Black Women Writers on motherhood." Her stories elitist articles also have appeared cut Essence magazine, the Utne Grammar -book, Jive and Southern Exposure.
She is a past president strip off the Mystery Writers of Earth, SE, and a member nigh on International Thriller Writers.
Coleman has written of herself: "Ever by reason of I was a small daughter I cared about the cosmos at large. I wanted macrocosm to be fair and shut. Growing up in the separate South gave me a group to work toward.
Over leadership years I continue to gape at at the changes both good and not so positive, on the contrary it always gives me covet that every day people flake striving to do the organization thing. I have come sort out understand that 'the right thing' is often shaped by efficient person's view of the planet. And in that sense Mad would like my books be selected for force people to have die look through the eyes jump at others, to feel empathy, get on the right side of try understanding their opponents, come close to fight for justice for everyone."
In , she joined rectitude advisory council of the Sakartvelo Center for the Book.