Kristin Hunter Lattany

Kristin Hunter Lattany received the Moonstone Black Writing Celebration Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. She is the author of nine published works of fiction, four for children and five for adults. All of her novels have been widely translated and well received. God Bless the Child (1964) won the Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award; The Landlord (1966) was made into a film in 1970; and her popular novel for teens, The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou (1968), received the Council on Interracial...See more

Kristin Hunter Lattany received the Moonstone Black Writing Celebration Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. She is the author of nine published works of fiction, four for children and five for adults. All of her novels have been widely translated and well received. God Bless the Child (1964) won the Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award; The Landlord (1966) was made into a film in 1970; and her popular novel for teens, The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou (1968), received the Council on Interracial Books for Children Award, the National Conference of Christians and Jews Award, and many other awards. Kristin Hunter Lattany has been a writer for the "Pittsburgh Courier," an advertising copywriter, an information officer for the city of Philadelphia, and, until her retirement in 1995, an instructor in English at the University of Pennsylvania. A Delaware Valley native, she lives with her husband, John Lattany, in southern New Jersey. See less