Dorothea Lange ─ The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression

Dorothea Lange’s experience with childhood illness left her sympathetic to those less fortunate and gave her a unique perspective on the Great Depression and its effects on the American people. Hired by the Farm Security Administration as a field investigator, she set out to document displaced farmers and migrant workers in the 1930s. On the road, she would find her most famous subject and create an icon. With illustrations by Sarah Green and lyrical prose by award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford, this book brings the story to young readers.

Carole Boston Weatherford is the author of several acclaimed poetry collections and poetic biographies, including Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood, and Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. She lives in North Carolina. Sarah Green is a California born-and-based illustrator. This is her first solo book but not her first foray into children's books. She studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated in 2014.