A visual artist, musician, and psychotherapist, Gary Golio is the author of the New York Times-bestselling picture book Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow , which received the 2011 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. His other books, most of which profile important artists, include When Bob Met Woody , Strange Fruit , Sonny Rollins Plays the Bridge , Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem , The Soldier's Friend , and Silence Sounds Simple . The recipient of a Caldecott Honor and a five-time Coretta Scott King award-winner, E. B. Lewis is the illustrator of more than seventy books for children. His recent titles include Invincible: Founding Fathers and Mothers of Black America by Wade Hudson, which was nominated for the Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Awards, Everywhere Beauty is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy DeCarava by Gary Golio, which received four starred reviews and was a Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of 2024, and The Soldier's Friend: Walt Whitman's Extraordinary Service in the American Civil War also by Gary Golio.