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Take a seat in the River Pavilion to hear New York Times Best-Selling Author Jason Reynolds read an except from his newest work, "Look Both Ways". This session will be followed by a discussion of Jason's inspiration behind the book, as well as questions and answers from the audience.
Born in Washington, DC and raised in neighboring Oxon Hill, Maryland, Jason Reynolds found inspiration in rap to begin writing poetry at nine years old. He focused on poetry for approximately the next two decades, only reading a novel cover to cover for the first time at age 17 and publishing several poetry collections before he published his own first novel, When I Was The Greatest, in 2014. He won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for this first work of prose and seven more novels followed in the next four years, including Ghost (2016) and two more books in what became his New York Times best-selling Track series, Patina (2017) and Sunny (2018); As Brave As You (2016), winner of the 2016 Kirkus Prize, the 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teen, and the 2017 Schneider Family Book Award; and a Marvel Comics novel called Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2017).
Reynolds returned to poetry with Long Way Down (2017), a novel in verse which was named a Newbery Honor book, a Printz Honor Book, and best young adult work by the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award.
Sunday September 22, 2019 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
River Pavilion