"A smash-up of art and text that viscerally captures what it means to not be able to breathe, and how the people and things you love most are actually the oxygen you most need"--
Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award winner; a two-time National Book Award finalist; winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, as well as many honors; a Kirkus Award winner; a UK Carnegie Medal winner; a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner; an NAACP Image Award winner; an Odyssey Award winner and two-time honoree; a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient; and a Margaret A. Edwards Award winner. He was also the 2020–2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. His many books include All 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; the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, Lu, and Coach); 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) and My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. (both cowritten with Jason Griffin); Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...; and Long 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 Jason is also the author of the picture book Dig. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.
