Atkins, Jeanne. STONE MIRRORS : THE SCULPTURE AND SILENCE OF EDMONIA LEWISNew York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017
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ISBN 1481459058
This is a fictional account of
sculptor Edmonia Lewis. Lewis was the daughter of an
Ojibwe woman and an African Haitian man. Her father left
before she was born and her mother passed away when she was
young. Lewis studied at Oberlin but was asked to leave
after being falsely accused of poisoning and theft. She
moved to Boston and was able to get some work creating busts of
famous Civil War heroes. The world really opened for her
when she received a commission to create a marble statue of
Abraham Lincoln. Lewis was able to move to Italy and began
working in marble. Although not much is known about Lewis,
Atkins uses verse to tell the story of what we do know.
