CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Local Author Lee Bennett Hopkins has passed away.
The announcement was made in a heartfelt Facebook post.
Hopkins was an award-winning author who left Scholastic to become a fulltime writer and education advocate.
He has a love for children's poetry and believed that poetry has importance in education.
In 1989 he was awarded the University of Southern Mississippi Medallion for "lasting contributions to children's literature."
