Jason Reynolds (born December 6, 1983) is an American author of novels and

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for young adult and middle-grade audience. Born in

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and raised in neighboring Oxon Hill, Maryland, Reynolds found inspiration in

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and had an early focus on poetry, publishing several poetry collections before his first novel in 2014, ''When I Was The Greatest'', which won the Coretta Scott King/ John Steptoe Award for New Talent. In the next four years, Reynolds wrote eight more novels, most notably the ''New York Times'' best-selling Track series—'' Ghost'' (2016), ''Patina'' (2017), ''Sunny'' (2018), ''Lu'' (2018),—and ''As Brave As You'' (2016). ''Ghost'' was a

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Finalist for Young People's Literature and ''As Brave As You'' won the Kirkus Prize, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teen, and the

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. Reynolds also wrote a

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novel called ''

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: Spider-Man'' (2017). In 2017, Reynolds returned to poetry with ''Long Way Down'', a novel in verse that was named a

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book, a Printz Honor Book, and best young adult work by the

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's Edgar Awards. In 2019, he wrote ''Look Both Ways'', for which he won a Carnegie Medal. Reynolds was named as the

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' national ambassador for young people's literature in January 2020.

Early life, education and influences

Reynolds was born on December 6, 1983, in Washington, DC, and grew up just across Maryland border in

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, a neighborhood where his mother, a special education teacher in a Maryland public school, could afford a house with a yard and enough space for Reynolds, his three siblings, and sometimes other extended family. At nine years old, Reynolds was inspired by

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's third album, '' Black Reign'', to start writing poetry. Outside of her rap, few literary works spoke to his experience of urban life growing up as a black child and then teenager in the 1980s and 1990s, and he didn't start reading books until he was 17. In the meantime,

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and

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also formed major influences. One of Reynolds's earliest poems dealt with his grandmother's death in 1994 when he was 10. He wrote a few lines in an effort to console his mother, who printed the poem on the program for the funeral, and after that Reynolds wrote poems as each of his grandmother's siblings passed. Moved by these experiences of "the power of language", he continued to pursue poetry through high school, graduating from

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(he ultimately graduated with a BA in English.) While an undergraduate, Reynolds met collaborator Jason Griffin, who became his roommate. Reynolds was also introduced to

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in this period and began performing, including eventually solo shows, and in 2001, his first book came out, a poetry collection called ''Let Me Speak.'' During college, Reynolds also worked at a DC bookstore chain called Karibu Books, which specialized in

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. At Karibu he encountered prose that resonated with him for the first time, such as Richard Wright's novel ''Black Boy''. Enthralled with Wright's novel from the first page, Reynolds next began making his way through the great works of African-American literature on the store's shelves, reading James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and

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. While at Karibu he also encountered street fiction, also known as

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, which is a literary genre Reynolds compares to rap's capacity for being "raw and honest. For some kids, this was their life."

Personal life

Reynolds moved back to Washington, D.C. from Brooklyn in 2016. He collects items related to

, including a letter by Langston Hughes, a pre-publication review copy of

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's ''

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'' and an autographed first edition copy of

's ''

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''. He appeared on ''

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'' in 2021 to discuss his collecting.

Selected works

Reynolds does not start with a particular age audience in mind; instead he focuses on the trying to write the voice of his characters authentically and lets that dictate who the book would appeal to. All of Reynolds' writings feature minority characters, which Reynolds sees as a reflection of the modern world.

Early works

After graduating from college, Reynolds moved to New York with a classmate, Jason Griffin; in 2005, the pair self-published a collaboration, collecting Griffin's visual art and Reynolds's poetry, called ''SELF.'' The book earned the pair an agent and then a book contract. Four years later they published ''My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way'', a memoir about moving to New York to pursue their dreams, expressed through Reynolds's poetry and Griffin's illustrations. They published the book with the

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imprint of

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, working with editor Joanna Cotler (after Cotler retired, she referred him to Caitlin Dlouhy, who would become the editor on his next seven books). In the meantime, Reynolds moved home to DC in 2008 after losing his apartment in New York. He worked at a department store—the

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—to pay the bills, going to a Border's bookstore on his lunch break to see his book arrive on the shelf in 2009. Next, he became a caseworker in a mental health clinic his father directed. Eventually, Reynolds returned to New York, again working in retail while he applied to graduate school, unsuccessfully because of his college grades. Nevertheless, he began writing a young adult novel—"often while standing at the cash register when business was slow" at the

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store he managed—spurred by his friend

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, son of

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and himself an author and illustrator. Reynolds had told Chris he had basically stopped writing, but Chris pointed out that with his father aging (the elder Myers died in 2014), there would soon be a shortage of new works written about young black children, particularly black boys. He suggested Reynolds look at some of his father's old works, and ''

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'' particularly connected with Reynolds; the work gave Reynolds the confidence to "write in my voice, use my tongue, my language, my style, and write a story. Before that I always felt like I wasn’t good enough because I wasn’t Baldwin, or Toni Mor, or Richard Wright." but after reading Myers's work, "the floodgates were opened." In 2014, Reynolds published ''When I Was The Greatest'' (with the Atheneum of

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), a young adult novel set in Reynolds' own neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. For the work, Reynolds won the 2015 Coretta Scott King/ John Steptoe Award for New Talent from the

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. In 2015, Reynolds published ''The Boy in the Black Suit'', about a child grieving the loss of his mother. It won a Coretta Scott King Honor from the

''All American Boys''

Also in 2015, Reynolds published ''

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'', co-authored with Brendan Kiely. The book depicts a black teenager assaulted in a convenience store by a white police officer who wrongly suspected him of stealing. The book is written in two voices, with Reynolds writing from the point of view of the teenaged victim, Rashad Butler, in a hospital bed, while Kiely wrote the character Quinn Collins, a white teenager and family friend of the police officer, who witnessed the violent attack. In a review for ''The New York Times'', Kelka Magoon found both main characters "successfully drawn" and called the novel "a book to be grappled with, challenged by, and discussed. 'All American Boys' represents one voice — even better, two voices — in a national conversation that must continue beyond its pages." The book arose from personal conversations between Reynolds, who is black, and Kiely, who is white. The two met on a

book tour in 2013, which coincided with the news that George Zimmerman had been acquitted of the murder of

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. Though strangers, Reynolds and Kiely began to share their feelings, each finding the other was "as frustrated as angry and as confused as I was", as Reynolds put it. A friendship developed and the conversations continued with increasing urgency; after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, Kiely reached out to Reynolds to propose they write a book addressing police brutality and racial profiling. The book won the inaugural Walter Dean Myers Award from the

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organization, as well as a Coretta Scott King Honor.

''As Brave As You''

In 2016, Reynolds published ''As Brave As You'', which won the 2016 Kirkus Prize, the 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teen, the 2017

, and the 2017 Coretta Scott King Honor. The book describes two African-American brothers from Brooklyn who are sent to spend the summer with their grandfather in Virginia. In ''

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'', reviewers said, "Reynolds deftly blends humor and heart through lively dialogue and spot-on sibling dynamics."

''Track'' series

The ''Track'' series follows a different protagonist in each novel, all of whom are members of the Defenders, an elite track team. In 2016, Reynolds published '' Ghost'', a

Finalist for Young People's Literature. Reviewing ''Ghost'' in ''

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'', Kate Messner said that in his title character, Reynolds has created a protagonist "whose journey is so genuine that he's worthy of a place alongside

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and Joey Pigza on the bookshelves where our most beloved, imperfect characters live." ''Ghost'' was published by the Caitlyn Dlouhy imprint of Atheneum on August 30, 2016. Three more books have followed in the series. ''Patina'' (2017) depicts another young star runner, Patina "Patty" Jones. Patty feels out of place at her nearly all-white private school. Patty and her younger sister live with their dead father's brother and his white wife because their birth mother is unable to take care of them after losing her legs due to diabetes. Critics noted the deft way the book handles many issues including teamwork and non-traditional family structures. This was the first book Reynolds had written with a female point of view. Reynolds wanted to write about the special burdens some teen girls assume in their families. In his ''

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'' review,

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called the novel "excellent". The book was also well received by other reviewers, earning a starred review in ''

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'',

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, and Booklist. The third installment in the series, called ''Sunny'', was released on April 10, 2018. '' Paste'' magazine named the audiobook, narrated by Guy Lockard, one of the 13 best of 2018 to date, saying, "The whole series is a must-listen, but ''Sunny'' is a particular treat" thanks to the Lockard's portrayal of the "lolling, goofball voice" of the novel's first-person protagonist. The fourth installment in the series, called ''Lu'', was released October 23, 2018.

''Miles Morales: Spider-Man''

Reynolds is the author of ''Miles Morales: Spider-Man'' (2017), a novel based on the

' Afro-Puerto Rican teen character. Reynolds has described his ambitions for the book as similar to

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's approach to ''

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'', namely to engage the audience with systemic social issues by "distill ngit down to a single family." Speaking to ''

'', Reynolds said, "It was a trip to take these issues I care so much about and figure out what they look like as a person. What do they sound like? How do they dress? How do they act? What do they do?" Reviewing the book for the ''

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'', Kayla Randall said, "The result...was exceptional."

''Long Way Down''

Reynolds's 2017 book, ''

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'', is a novel written in verse. It describes a 15-year-old who sees his brother shot to death, drawing on Reynolds's experience of having a friend murdered when Reynolds was 19. Reynolds was moved to write the book by his visits to juvenile detention centers, where he frequently encounters children caught in a cycle of violence that, under slightly different circumstances, might have been his own: Reynolds has said that after his own friend's murder, he and other friends planned to seek revenge but never did so as the perpetrator wasn't conclusively identified, something he looked back on and "realized how lucky that was." ''Long Way Down'' was named a 2018

book by the American Library Association, a Printz Honor Book, best young adult work at the

's Edgar Awards, a Walter Dean Myers Award from the

organization, a Coretta Scott King Honor, and a finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teens. An adaptation by Martine Kei Green-Rogers of ''Long Way Down'' was commissioned by the Kennedy Center and performed at the Kennedy Center's Family Theater in October/November 2018. In October 2020, a graphic novel addition of ''Long Way Down'' was published with art by

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''For Every One''

On April 10, 2018, Reynolds released ''For Every One,'' a work of poetry. He originally performed the poem at the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial at the Kennedy Center. Two weeks later, Reynolds occupied three slots on ''The New York Times'' best-seller lists for children's literature: two on the young adult hardcover list (''Long Way Down'' and ''For Every One''), and one on the children's series list for the Track series.

"Ten Things I've Been Meaning to Say to You"

Reynold's published a list for teenagers with 10 things he thought they should know about life and their futures. It was posted on May 28, 2018, on Powell's Book Blog.

''Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks''

''Look Both Ways'' was published on October 8, 2019. The story is told across ten blocks in different perspectives as middle schoolers walk home from school. On the day of its release, ''Look Both Ways'' became a finalist for the

and later made the New York Times Best Sellers List. Jason Reynolds explained that he wanted to explore kids' autonomy in this book, saying, "It is a time when they are unsupervised" and they "get to learn about the world on their own, for better or for worse." He won the 2021 Carnegie Medal for the book.

''Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You''

Reynolds announced ''Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You'' in August 2019 in collaboration with

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. Releasing in March 2020, Reynolds' book is an adaptation of Kendi's book ''

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'', which won the National Book Award in 2016. The book is for teens and young adults and serves to start a conversation among them about race and racism in America. Reynolds says, "I think that we have a rare opportunity to give the historical context of how we made it here today. This is the definitive history of race in America from the 1400s to today. It isn't about how to fix it per se. It's just about contextualizing why it is the way it is." In 2021, Reynolds, alongside Kendi and Sonja Cherry-Paul, published ''Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You'', which was illustrated by Rachelle Baker. The book is a ''New York Times'' best seller.

Selected awards and honors

Bibliography

*''Let Me Speak--'' (2001). *''SELF'' with Jason Griffin (2005) *''My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way.'' with illustrations by Jason Griffin (2009) *''When I Was The Greatest'' (2014) *''The Boy in the Black Suit'' (2015) *''

'' with Brendan Kiely (2015) *'' As Brave As You'' (2013) * ''Ghost'' (''Track'' Book #1) (2016) *''Patina'' (''Track'' Book #2) (2017) * ''Miles Morales: Spider-Man'', with illustrations by

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(2017) *''

'' (2017) * ''Sunny'' (''Track'' Book #3) (2018) *''For Every One'' (2018) *''Lu'' (''Track'' Book #4) (2018) *'' Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks'' (2019) *'' Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You'' (2020) *''Stuntboy, in the Meantime'' (2021) *'' Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You'' *''Ain't Burned All the Bright '' (2022)

References

External links

Official website

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