In 1928, Dhan Gopal Mukerji won the American Library Association’s Newbery Medal for his children’s book Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon. The book’s protagonist is the eponymous Gay Neck ...

The first book by an Indian American to win a Newbery Award, Dhan Gopal Mukerji’s “Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon” has been largely forgotten today.