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Kwame Alexander (born August 21, 1968) is an American writer of poetry and children's fiction. His verse novel The Crossover won the 2015 Newbery Medal and was selected as an Honor book for the Coretta Scott King Award.[1]

Kwame Alexander
Alexander at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Born	(1968-08-21) August 21, 1968 (age 54) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Virginia Tech
Genre	Children's literature
Notable awards	John Newbery Medal The Coretta Scott King Author Honor The Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Prize 2017 Inaugural Pat Conroy Legacy Award
Spouse	Stephanie Stanley
Website
kwamealexander.com

Personal life and education

Alexander was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Chesapeake, Virginia. His father was a scholar and book publisher and his mother was an educator. His given name, Kwame, comes from Ghana and means "born on a Saturday," although Alexander was born on a Wednesday.

Alexander attended Virginia Tech, where he took a writing class with Nikki Giovanni.[2]

Books

Alexander's picture book Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band, was selected for the 2014 "Michigan Reads! One State, One Children's Book" program.[3] He won a 2020 Newbery Honor for his illustrated poem The Undefeated.[4]

Alexander runs the Bookinaday program to introduce children to writing and publishing.[5] He is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition program.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

• Tough Love: Cultural Criticism and Familial Observations on the Life and Death of Tupac Shakur, ed. (1996)
• Do the Write Thing (2002) (with Nina Foxx)
• Kwame Alexander's Page-to-Stage Writing Workshop (2016)

Novels

• He Said, She Said: A Novel (2013)
• The Crossover: A Novel (2015)
• Booked (2016)[6][7][8]
• Solo (2017) (with Mary Rand Hess)
• Rebound (2018) (prequel to The Crossover)
• Swing (2018) (with Mary Rand Hess)
• The Door of No Return (2022)

Picture books

• Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band (2011)
• Indigo Blume and the Garden City (2012)
• Little Boys Soar (2014)
• Surf's Up (2016)
• How to Read a Book (2019), illustrated by Melissa Sweet
• The Undefeated (2019), illustrated by Kadir Nelson
• An American Story (2023)

Poems

• The Flow: New Black Poets in Motion, ed. (1994)
• Just Us: Poems & Counterpoems, 1986–1995 (1995)
• 360°: A Revolution of Black Poets, ed. (1998)
• Kupenda: Love Poems (2000)
• Dancing Naked on the Floor: poems and essays (2005)
• The Way I Walk: short stories and poems for Young Adults, ed. (2006)
• Crush: Love Poems (2007)
• Family Pictures: Poems and Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones, ed. (2007)
• An American Poem (2008)
• And Then You Know: New and Selected Poems (2008)
• The Book Party (2016)
• The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score into in This Game Called Life (2017)

References

External links

• Official website
• Kwame Alexander Author Profile
• Audio of author reading Acoustic Rooster
• Preliminary Guide to the Kwame Alexander Papers, 1990–2007, Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University

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[fr] Kwame Alexander

Kwame Alexander, né le 21 août 1968 à New York, est un poète et écrivain pour enfants américain. Il est surtout connu pour son roman écrit en vers, Frères (The Crossover), qui gagne la Médaille Newbery de 2015.

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