We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Kwame Alexander, a Newbury Medal-winning author of books for young readers, has written an unusual memoir, for adults.

Author Kwame Alexander will deliver the 2027 Children’s Literature Lecture. The announcement was made today by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American ...

Kwame Alexander has written dozens of books—ones about basketball, ones about soccer, ones about animals, ones about Black Americans, ones about love. But his 36 th, The Door of No Return, which comes ...

Best-selling author Kwame Alexander discusses his literary works, career and passion for writing. New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander talks with One Detroit contributor Stephen ...

Black history is usually told through stories of African Americans’ experience in the United States, but Kwame Alexander wants to expand that narrative and he’s doing it one word, and one book, at ...

Author Kwame Alexander reflects on healing and the power of writing in his new memoir, "Why Fathers Cry at Night," released on May 23. Kwame Alexander's memoir began as a book of love poems but ...

After writing a number of best-selling YA and children's books including Swing, The Undefeated, and The Crossover, Caldecott and Newbery award-winning author Kwame Alexander faced his biggest ...

In his new novel-in-verse, “The Door of No Return,” the Newbery Medal-winning author works hard to show that white people weren’t the only ones perpetuating an unjust system. By Kwame Dawes When you ...

Looking for a book to read in February? Kwame Alexander stopped by the 3rd hour of TODAY on Feb. 3 to share his recommendations. Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, author and producer who has ...

A trilogy by award-winning children’s author Kwame Alexander, who grew up in Chesapeake, begins this fall with “The Door of No Return.” The book, which tells the saga of an African family, will be ...

Kwame Alexander on "Swing" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Rich Fahle. New York Times bestselling authors Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess (Solo) tell a lyrical story about hope, courage, ...

Kwame Alexander's latest book pulls at the heartstrings. It's called Why Fathers Cry at Night, and its rawness is so poignant that Alexander fretted over its very publication. He told NPR that he ...