When Wiles traveled to Kent State for a commemorative weekend “to honor the fallen and try to make sense of what happened,” she was shaken into writing about it. Kent State is a free-verse treatment of the four unarmed college students who were killed by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, for protesting the Vietnam War. White award winner, a Golden Kite Award winner, and a Jane Addams Peace Award Finalist. Among other honors, she was an NAACP Book Award finalist, an E.B. She wrote a pioneer documentary trilogy about the 1960s, Countdown 1962, Revolution 1964, and Anthem 1969. She is the author of several highly acclaimed books, two of which were National Book Award finalists. She attended Jones County Junior College in Ellisville, Mississippi, and later received an MFA from Vermont College. She has the distinction of being nominated by MIAL for another book also published in 2020, Night Walk to the Sea.īorn in Mobile, Alabama, to a military family stationed in several places around the U.S., Wiles spent every summer with kin in Louin, Mississippi, and considers it her home base. Deborah Wiles, from Tucker, Georgia, is the winner in Youth Literature for Kent State, written for students ages 12-18.
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