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Known For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

March 11, 1916

Died

May 6, 1983 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Ezra Jack Keats

Biography

Ezra Jack Keats was an award-winning author and illustrator of books for children. He is best known for The Snowy Day, about a little boy playing in the snow. Many of Ezra’s stories are about a group of friends growing up in the city. The neighborhood they live in looks like the streets where Ezra grew up in Brooklyn, New York.

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