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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Joyce Carol Thomas, Berkeley children’s author, dies at 78

Celebrated local children’s author Joyce Carol Thomas — a poet, playwright and winner of the National Book Award — died Aug. 13 at Stanford University. She was 78 years old.
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