Tate, Don: - Don Tate is the author and illustrator of critically acclaimed books for children. In 2013, he earned an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor Award for his first picture book text, It Jes Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw. In 2016, he earned an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award for the first picture book he both wrote and illustrated, Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton.