Dinah Johnson

Children’s literature is at the center of Dinah Johnson’s life. She is the author of picture book titles including Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote (Christy Ottaviano/Little, Brown 2024), H is for Harlem (Christy Ottaviano/Little, Brown 2022), Indigo Dreaming (HarperCollins 2022), and Black Magic (Henry Holt, paperback 2021). As Dr. Dianne Johnson-Feelings, she is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina and is a pioneering scholar of African American children’s literature. All of Dinah Johnson’s work is in the service of children. She hopes that her efforts make her readers feel like the little girl who wrote to her, “Dear Dinah, You had made my heart sing.”