Ezra Jack Keats
Writing
Born: 3/11/1916•Died: 5/6/1983
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.