Kwame Alexander is an Emmy® Award-winning producer, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of 44 books, including Why Fathers Cry at Night , How Sweet The Sound , The Door of No Return (2025 Audie Award Winner), The Undefeated , the National Book Award nominee, Newbery Honor, and Caldecott Medal-winning picture book illustrated by Kadir Nelson, and The Crossover , his Newbery Medal-winning novel turned Disney+ TV series. His forthcoming books include [...] read more

Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, Emmy® Award-winning producer and a #1 New York Times bestselling author of 44 books, including Why Fathers Cry at Night , How Sweet The Sound , The Door of No Return (2025 Audie Award Winner), Becoming Muhammad Ali (co-authored with James Patterson), Rebound , which was short-listed for the prestigious UK Carnegie Medal and The Undefeated , the National Book Award nominee, Newbery Honor and Caldecott Medal-winning picture book illustrated by Kadir Nelson. [...] read more

Kwame Alexander has written 44 books, one of them in Panera Bread, several of them on airplanes and in hotel rooms, and three of them in a penthouse with huge windows in London. He now lives and writes in an apartment building that used to be a hotel which used to have a restaurant that Langston Hughes was a busboy in. His apartment has a blue couch, a large painting of Nikki Giovanni, and a bunch of awards—including his Newbery Medal, NAACP Image Award, Emmy Award, which he keeps in the guest bathroom so all his [...] read more