![]() Greenfield has also received the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, given by the National Council of Teachers of English. Greenfield is also a member of the African-American Writers Guild. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, has taught creative writing to elementary and junior high school students. She has given free workshops on the writing of African-American literature for children, and, under grants from the D.C. Black Writers' Workshop (now defunct), a group whose goal was to encourage the writing and publishing of Africa-American literature. She headed the Adult Fiction and Children's Literature divisions of the D.C. In addition to writing herself, Eloise Greenfield has found time to work with other writers. Stone Center for Children's Books in Claremont, California for Honey, I Love and an honorary degree from Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts. Greenfield has received many honors for her work, including the 1990 Recognition of Merit Award presented by the George G. There were far too few books that told the truth about African-American people. Her decision to write came from a lack of books on African Americans. Greenfield studied piano as a child and teenager, before getting a full time civil service job. While she was still an infant, her family moved to Washington, D.C., where she has lived ever since. ![]() Eloise Greenfield was born in Parmele, North Carolina, on May 17, 1929. ![]()
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