![]() What made Stevie so popular, however, was Steptoe's choice of subject matter. ![]() Steptoe's use of inner-city dialect and his depiction of an urban setting targeted an audience previously ignored by children's book publishers: urban African American youth. Written by an inner-city African American teenager and directed at inner-city African American youth, Stevie was lauded by the critics for its appeal to white as well as black audiences. ![]() Published by Harper in 1969 and reprinted in Life, Stevie vaulted the nineteen-year-old Steptoe into the limelight. While he was a student at Vermont Academy, Steptoe wrote and illustrated his first novel, Stevie. There Steptoe met Philip Dubois, who provided him with a place to work at the end of the summer session. In 1968, Steptoe was recruited as a senior in high school by John Torres to attend an eight-week summer program for minority artists at Vermont Academy. ![]() (1950–1989), artist, author, and illustrator of children's books.īorn on 14 September 1950 and raised in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, John Lewis Steptoe attended the New York School of Design and an afternoon art program sponsored by the Harlem Youth Opportunity Act from 1964 to 1967. ![]()
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