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| Marie Bradby |
Award-winning journalist and children’s author, Marie Bradby is an Alexandria native and one of several children who integrated Alexandria public schools. Marie is a former staff writer for the Courier Journal newspaper (Louisville, Kentucky) and National Geographic Magazine. Her picture book “More Than Anything Else” is well-known nationally and internationally in schools and libraries. It won the International Reading Association Award for its fictionalized account of Booker T. Washington’s childhood struggle to learn to read. Her acclaimed novel “Some Friend” tells the story of an 11-year-old girl during the age of Motown music.
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