“Who else is there to write for, as far as I’m concerned,” he says of his commitment to telling stories of Black youth.
He’s even added a Marvel comic novel to his canon with Miles Morales: Spider-Man.
From a teen reeling after witnessing his brother’s murder to two citified brothers spending a summer with their blind grandfather in Virginia, Reynolds’ characters speak directly to our community. So I left.”Īs a major figure in the literary world, Reynolds-who is currently working on his fourteenth book-unapologetically creates for young Black readers. “I love New York but not more than my mother, and I’d already sacrificed enough time away from my family. “My mother turned 70, and that was enough for me,” says Reynolds, who had already been named a National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature. The decision came after the success of his 2014 YA novel When I Was the Greatest. There was a moment during Jason Reynolds’ meteoric rise as a young adult author and poet when he turned his back on newfound fame in New York City and moved to be near the quiet suburbs of Prince George’s County, Maryland, where he grew up.
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