Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds is a #1New York Timesbestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, aUKCarnegie Medal winner,a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner andtwo-time honoree, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honorsand the Margaret A. Edwards Award. He wasalso the 2020–2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His many books includeAll American Boys(cowritten with Brendan Kiely);When I Was the Greatest;The Boy in the Black Suit;Stamped;As Brave as You;For Every One; theTrackseries (Ghost,Patina,Sunny, andLu);Look Both Ways;Stuntboy, in the Meantime;Ain’t Burned All the Bright(recipient of the Caldecott Honor)andMy Name Is Jason. Mine Too.(both cowritten with Jason Griffin); andLong Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His debut picture book,There Was a Party for Langston, won a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.