Theodore Taylor III is an artist living in Richmond, Virginia with his spouse Sarah and son Theo. Outside of his career as a children’s book author and illustrator, he also works as a front-end web developer and volunteers as a radio DJ. His artwork is inspired by his love of music, comics, animation, video games, street art and more. He is a self-proclaimed pizza connoisseur.

In 2014 he received the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe New Talent Award for his illustrations in When The Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop. In 2015 the book was also awarded the Texas Bluebonnet Award.

C Is For Country, his book with musician Lil Nas X, was a 2021 New York Times Bestseller.

Rotting For Plants: The Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector was included on NSTA’s 2023 list of Best Stem Books as well as NSTA’s Outstanding Science Trade Books. 

He is represented by HG Literary.

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