Ashley Bryan

Ashley F. Bryan (July 13, 1923 – February 4, 2022) was an American educator, children's writer and illustrator of children's books. His books were mainly about the African American experience. He was U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and he won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 2009. His picture book Freedom Over Me received a Newbery Honor. Bryan was born in Harlem, New York.

Bryan lived in Maine. He died at his niece's home in Sugar Land, Texas from congestive heart failure on February 4, 2022, at the age of 98.