Charles R. Smith has traveled the United States and abroad to take photos for the NBA, SLAM, and Sports Illustrated. He is also an award-winning children's author and poet, with more than 30 books to his credit. He's won a Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration for his photographic illustration of Langston Hughes's poem My People and a Coretta Scott King Honor Author Award for his Muhammad Ali biography, Twelve Rounds to Glory. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.
"Like the game, the poems are quick, energetic, and highly rhythmic, and the prose pieces, personal and passionate". -- SLJ
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