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Short Bio

Anne Wynter is the Ezra Jack Keats Honor-winning author of the picture books Everybody in the Red Brick Building and Nell Plants a Tree as well as the board books Hands On! and One Big Day.  She lives in Austin, TX.

Longer Bio

Anne Wynter is the Ezra Jack Keats Honor-winning author of Everybody in the Red Brick Building, illustrated by Oge Mora; the board books One Big Day and Hands On!, both illustrated by Alea Marley; and Nell Plants a Tree, illustrated by Daniel Miyares.

Her book Everybody in the Red Brick Building was named an Ezra Jack Keats Award Honoree, a Kids’ Indie Next pick, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2021, and a Booklist 2021 Editors’ Choice Book – among other honors. Nell Plants a Tree received 5 starred reviews and was on the 2023 Barnes and Noble Children’s Book Awards Shortlist.

Originally from Houston, Anne earned a degree in theatre from Washington University in St. Louis and penned a number of short plays that have been produced around the country. She lives in Austin, TX with her family.