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Keith Henry Brown

Keith Henry Brown

got his start drawing superheroes, but music has always been his inspiration. Brown has illustrated album covers for many great jazz artists, including Wynton Marsalis and Christian McBride; he illustrated his first children’s book, Birth of the Cool: How Miles Davis Found His Sound, published by Page Street, in 2019. His latest, Because Of You John Lewis, written by Andrea Davis Pinkneywas published this Spring by Scholastic.


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