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Winner of the 2013 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work! The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song is a rich and compelling original graphic novel that tells the story of the Carter Family—the first superstar group of country music—who made hundreds of recordings and sold millions of records. Many of their hit songs, such as “Wildwood Flower” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” have influenced countless musicians and remain timeless country standards. The Carter Family: Don’t Forget This Song is not only a unique illustrated biography, but a moving account that reveals the family’s rise to success, their struggles along the way, and their impact on contemporary music. Illustrated with exacting detail and written in the Southern dialect of the time, its dynamic narrative is pure Americana.
About the Author
Frank Young was born in Tallahassee, Florida in 1963. From the age of 17, he has been a professional writer. After over a decade of journalism, Young became an editor, and returned to writing in the late 1990s. He has written several non-fiction children's books, With collaborator David Lasky, Young has co-created two graphic novels: OREGON TRAIL: THE ROAD TO DESTINY and THE CARTER FAMILY: DON'T FORGET THIS SONG. The latter won the prestigious Eisner Award in 2014. He and Lasky are starting their third graphic novel project. Young is also a designer, cartoonist, musician and improv comedian. He is considered a leading scholar of comics history, and is hailed as an expert on the works of artist/writer John Stanley (of LITTLE LULU fame) . Young has also written on popular music, most recently for Ace Records' 2010 CD release YOU BABY: WORDS AND MUSIC BY P. F. SLOAN AND STEVE BARRI.
