Jason Reynolds

: January 4, 2024
: Novelist

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Full Name	Jason Reynolds
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Dec 6, 1983(1983-12-06)
Age	41
Birthplace	Washington, D.C.
Country	United States
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Jason Reynolds Biography

Name	Jason Reynolds
Birthday	Dec 6
Birth Year	1983
Place Of Birth	Washington, D.C.
Birth Country	United States
Birth Sign	Sagittarius

Jason Reynolds is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on December 6, 1983 in Washington, D.C., United States. Young adult novelist, best recognized for his award-winning novels, When I Was the Greatest and Ghost. He also wrote As Brave as You, All American Boys, The Boy in the Black Suit and My Name Jason. Jason. Mine Too.

The first time he was attracted to writing because of the Queen of Latifah’s artistic talent on the album Black Reign.

Jason Reynolds (born December 6, 1983) is an American author of novels and poetry for young adult and middle-grade audiences, including Ghost, a National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature.

At nine years old, Reynolds was inspired by Queen Latifah’s 1993 album Black Reign to start writing poetry. Outside of her rap, few literary works spoke to his experience of urban life growing up as a black child and then teenager in the 1980s and 1990s, and he didn’t start reading books until he was 17. In the meantime, Tupac and Biggie also formed major influences.

He was born and raised at home in Washington D.C. At the age of eight, he was determined to be a poet.

Jason Reynolds Net Worth

Net Worth	$5 Million
Source Of Income	Novelist
House	Living in own house.

Jason Reynolds is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jason Reynolds 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The graduate graduated from University of Maryland with a B.A. in English. Then he moved to Brooklyn doing odd jobs until the second book deal he signed, which was for his novel When I Was The Greatest.

He was the author of the 2016 National Book Award Finalist in the Young People’s Literature category for his novel Ghost and also won the Coretta Scott Kings/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for his book When I Was the Greatest.

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 special education 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.

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In 2014, Reynolds published When I Was The Greatest (with the Atheneum of Simon & Schuster), a young adult novel set in Reynolds’ own neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. For the work, Reynolds won the 2015 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent from the American Library Association.

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Jason Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jason Reynolds celebrates birthday on December 6 of every year.

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), 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. He also wrote a Marvel Comics graphic novel called Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2017).

Top Facts about Jason Reynolds

Jason Reynolds is an award-winning American young adult novelist.
He was born on December 6, 1983, in Washington D.C.
Reynolds has written over a dozen books for young adults.
His debut novel “When I Was the Greatest” was published in 2014.
Reynolds’ book “Long Way Down” was a National Book Award finalist.
He has won numerous awards including the Coretta Scott King Award.
Reynolds is also a poet and writes for stage and screen.
He is known for his realistic portrayals of urban life and black youth culture.
Reynolds advocates for diverse representation in literature and publishing.
In 2020, he became the Library of Congress’s National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.

What is Jason Reynolds most known for?

Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books for young people , including Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks, All American Boys, Long Way Down, and Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, and the upcoming Stuntboy, in the Meantime.

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Jason Reynolds is a New York Times bestselling author, a Kirkus Prize winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award winner, a National Book Award finalist, and the recipient of a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, multiple Coretta Scott King Award honors and a CILIP Carnegie Medal.

What inspired Jason Reynolds to write ghost?

Where did the idea for this story come from? REYNOLDS: A version of it happened to one of my best friends when he was 6 or 7—it was his mom’s boyfriend who tried to kill them. They got out of the house and ran into a 7-Eleven, frantic and begging. I was like, “I’ve got to put this in a book.”