Third album, Black Reign, to start writing poetry. Īt nine years old, Reynolds was inspired by Queen Latifah's
Reynolds was born on December 6, 1983, in Washington, DC, and grew up just across Maryland border in Oxon Hill, a neighborhood where his mother, a specialĮducation teacher in a Maryland public school, could afford a house with a yard and enough space for Reynolds, his three siblings, and sometimes other extended family. Reynolds was named as the Library of Congress' national ambassador for young people's literature in January 2020. In 2019, he wrote Look Both Ways, for which he won a Carnegie Medal. In 2017, Reynolds returned to poetry with Long Way Down, a novel in verse that was named a Newbery Honor book, a Printz Honor Book, and best young adult work by the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Awards. Reynolds also wrote a Marvel Comics novel called Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2017). Ghost was a National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature and As Brave As You won the Kirkus Prize, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teen, and the Schneider Family Book Award. In the next four years, Reynolds wrote eight more novels, most notably the New York Times best-selling Track series- Ghost (2016), Patina (2017), Sunny (2018), Lu (2018),-and As Brave As You (2016). and raised in neighboring Oxon Hill, Maryland, Reynolds found inspiration in rap and had an early focus on poetry, publishing several poetry collections before his first novel in 2014, When I Was The Greatest, which won the Coretta Scott King/ John Steptoe Award for New Talent.
Jason Reynolds (born December 6, 1983) is an American author of novels and poetry for young adult and middle-grade audience. NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teen Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award for New Talent
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