Ezra Jack Keats
Born
March 11, 1916
Died
May 6, 1983 (67 years old)
Known For
Writing
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Ezra Jack Keats was an award-winning author and illustrator of books for children. He is best known for The Snowy Day, about a little boy playing in the snow. Many of Ezra’s stories are about a group of friends growing up in the city. The neighborhood they live in looks like the streets where Ezra grew up in Brooklyn, New York.