About Margy

MARGY BURNS KNIGHT received the National Education Association’s Author-Illustrator Human & Civil Rights Award for her work with Anne Sibley O’Brien and the Children’s Africana Book Award for Africa Is Not a Country. She is the author of Talking Walls, which has sold more than 200,000 copies.

Margy’s  new book, Who Needs a Statue?,  co-authored by Eve Laplante and illustrated by Alix Delinois  will be published in the fall of 2023.