Renée Watson
New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor Book
About Renée
Renée Watson is the New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor Book, and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author of Piecing Me Together, This Side of Home, What Momma Left Me, and Betty Before X, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz, as well as two acclaimed picture books: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem’s Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. She is the founder of I, Too, Arts Collective, a nonprofit committed to nurturing underrepresented voices in the creative arts, and currently lives in New York City. Her new book is Ways to Share Joy.
Appearances
Every time Renée Watson has taken the stage with House of SpeakEasy.
The Root of It All
Renée performed at a SpeakTogether virtual student matinee on February 5, 2021, speaking on the day's theme, “The Root of It All.”