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Charles R. Smith Jr. is an award-winning author, photographer, and poet with over thirty books to his credit. His awards include a Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration for his photographs accompanying the Langston Hughes poem, My People , and a Coretta Scott King Honor Author Award for his biography on Muhammad Ali, Twelve Rounds to Glory . He grew up in California and attended the Brooks Institute of Photography. Charles currently lives with his family in Poughkeespie, New York.
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