Jewell Parker RhodesJewell Parker Rhodes (born 1954) is an American bestselling novelist and educator.
She is the author of several books for children, including the New York Times bestsellers Will's Race for Home, winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award; Black Brother, Black Brother; and Ghost Boys, which has garnered more than fifty awards and honors including The Walter Award, the Indies Choice/EB White Read-Aloud Award, and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award for Older Readers, and was later adapted as Ghost Boys: The Graphic Novel. Rhodes is also the author of Soul Step, Treasure Island: Runaway Gold, Paradise on Fire, Towers Falling and the celebrated Louisiana Girls Trilogy, which includes Ninth Ward, winner of the Coretta Scott King Honor Award; Sugar; and Bayou Magic.
Rhodes has written six adult novels: Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass’ Women, Season, Moon, and Hurricane, as well as the memoir Porch Stories: A Grandmother’s Guide to Happiness, and two writing guides: Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Non-Fiction. A reissue of Magic City, a novel about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, was released in 2021 in recognition of the 100th anniversary.
