![]() ![]() She served as the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities' writer-in-residence for 19-86. In the 1970s Greenfield became involved in the District of Columbia Black Writer's Workshop, where she started as the codirector of adult fiction (1971-73) and then became director of children's literature (1973-74). From 1956 to 1960, Greenfield was a supervisory patent assistant, after which she worked in a variety of capacities in the Washington D.C. She then began a career as a clerk typist at the U.S. After what Greenfield describes as a childhood she looks back on with pleasure, she attended Miner Teachers College from 1946-49. I want to make them shout and laugh and blink back tears and care about themselves." Her extensive list of prestigious awards is one indication that she has succeeded in this goal. Greenfield writes: "I want to be one of those who can choose and order words that children will want to celebrate. ![]() Offering African American children a positive and self-affirming view of the minority experience. ![]() Passionate about language and the rhythms of words, Eloise Greenfield has devoted her career to writing children's books Greenfield, 1950 (separated) children Steven, Monica and Lessie Jones Little married Robert J. ![]()
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