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Sharon Draper is an Americanauthor, poet, and master educator.

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She has won many awards for teaching and written many books, poems, and short stories. She was a teacher in Cincinnati from 1970-1997 and became an author in 1991, which is the career she is currently pursuing. Her first piece was “One Small Torch”, a short story published in the Ebony magazine in 1991 as the winner of a short story contest with 20,000 entries.

In her writing, she choses African-American male characters to give a voice to African-American young men.

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Early life

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Sharon Draper was born on August 21, 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. With 2 siblings, she was the eldest daughter of three kids in her family and grew up in a close-knit neighborhood.

Education

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Sharon Draper earned her BA from Pepperdine University in 1971 and her MA from Miami University of Ohio in 1974

Teaching career

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