Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds is a #1New York Timesbestselling author, recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a 2024 MacArthur Fellow, 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 honors, a Coretta Scott King Author Award, and 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; Stuntboy, In-Between Time; Miles Morales Suspended;Ain’t Burned All the Bright(recipient of the Caldecott Honor)andMy Name Is Jason. Mine Too.(both cowritten with Jason Griffin);Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...; 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.