Long Way Down

Jason Reynolds is a #1  New York Times  bestselling 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, 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, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors, a Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Margaret A. Edwards Award. 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 a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. He lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks. com.