Brendan Kiely is the New York Times bestselling author of The Last True Love Story, All American Boys (with Jason Reynolds), and The Gospel of Winter. His work has been translated in ten languages, received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor Award, the Walter Dean Myers Award, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, and was selected as one of the American Library Association’s Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults. Originally from the Boston area, he now lives with his wife in Greenwich Village.