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Shorter Bio

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

Short Bio

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

Fun, Kid Friendly Bio

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