Wade Hudson

Agent: Allison Remcheck Pernetti

WADE HUDSON is an award-winning author, CEO and co-founder of Just Us Books, one of the nation’s leading independent children’s book publishers.

Wade’s career in publishing spans four decades. He has written more than 35 books His newest titles are the picture books Invincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America and The Day Madear Voted, the middle grade novel, The Reckoning, and the memoir, Defiant, Growing Up in the Jim Crow South, which Kirkus Reviews called a “powerful testimony from a children’s literature legend,” and which won the 2022 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature.

Wade’s contributions to children's literature have been recognized with numerous awards, including the Stephen Crane Literary Award, induction into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent, the Harlem Book Fair Phillis Wheatley Award (2007), the Ida B. Wells Institutional Leadership Award (2008) presented by the Center for Black Literature, the Madam C. J. Walker Legacy Award (2012) given by the Zora Neale Hurston-Richard Wright Foundation, and the 2022 Carle Honors award from The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, a recognition he shares with his wife Cheryl Willis Hudson.  

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