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Nic Stone
Born (1985-07-10) July 10, 1985 (age 39)
Atlanta, Georgia
Alma materSpelman College
Genreyoung adult fiction
Years active2017-now
Notable worksDear Martin; Clean Getaway; Black Enough; Odd One Out; Snow in Love; Jackpot
SpouseNigel Livingstone (2010 - Present)
Children2
Website
nicstone.info

Andrea Nicole Livingstone[1] (born July 10, 1985), known as Nic Stone, is an American New York Times best-selling author of young adult fiction and middle grade fiction, best known for her debut novel Dear Martin and her Middle Grade debut, Clean Getaway. Her novels have been translated into six languages.

Personal life

Stone was born and raised in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.[2] She has a degree in Psychology from Spelman College. She is African-American[3] and is openly bisexual.[4] After college, she worked in teen mentoring and moved to Israel for a few years.[5]

Career

During a trip to Israel in 2008, Stone discovered that she wanted to become a writer when encountering a family with a story that fascinated her.[6] Stone wrote her first novel for young adults in 2012, inspired by American young adult novelist Veronica Roth's Divergent series because it was the first series featuring black characters that she encountered that lives until the end.[6] That same book later landed her a literary agent.[6]

Dear Martin

Stone in 2017

Her debut novel Dear Martin, about a high school senior in a predominantly white school who starts writing letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after he has a dangerous encounter with racist police officers, was sold as a proposal in a two-book deal[7] and published in 2017 by Crown Books for Young Readers.[8] Stone has stated she began writing her debut novel Dear Martin after the death of Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old black high school student who was fatally shot by a white man in a hate crime in 2017.[9] The book debuted on the New York Times bestseller list at #4.[10] It was also chosen as a finalist for the William C. Morris award in 2017[11] and received a starred review from Booklist.[12] It has been published and translated in Germany, Brazil, Indonesia, The Netherlands, UK, Turkey, and Romania.[13] Two years after it was first published, Dear Martin again hit the New York Times bestseller list, for Young Adult Paperbacks and at #1, in February 2020.[14]

A sequel, Dear Justyce, about an incarcerated teen who is on trial for murder charges, was published in October 2020. Stone says she wasn't planning on writing a sequel. but encouraged by her publisher, and decided to write a book about a " black boy that everybody is afraid of."[6]

Clean Getaway

Her Middle Grade debut, Clean Getaway, illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile, was published by Crown in January 2020.[15] It tells the story of an 11-year-old Scoob, who goes on a roadtrip with his grandmother.[16] It received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly[17] and Booklist,[18] and debuted on the Children's Middle Grade Hardcover New York Times bestseller list, at #5.[19] Stone says the inspiration for the novel was a Twitter headline about a shoplifting grandma in Atlanta who turned out to be an international jewel thief.[16]

Other works

Her second young adult novel, Odd One Out, is about three queer teenagers of color in a love triangle and explores themes of gender, sexual fluidity and identity.[20] It was published in 2018 by Crown Books for Young Readers.[21][22] It also received a starred review from Booklist.[23] In 2019, her third novel, Jackpot, following a gas station clerk that she sold a winning lottery ticket to, was published by Crown.[6] Stone originally wrote the novel in 2015.[24]

In September 2019, it announced that Stone would write a novel focused on Shuri, from Marvel's Black Panther.[25] It was published by Scholastic in 2020.[25]

Aside from young adult fiction and middle grade, Stone also writes essays, and her short fiction has appeared in multiple anthologies.

Bibliography

Young adult fiction

  • Dear Martin (Crown Books for Young Readers, 2017)
  • Odd One Out (Crown Books for Young Readers, 2018)
  • Jackpot (Crown Books for Young Readers, 2019)
  • Dear Justyce (Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020)
  • Shuri: A Black Panther Novel (Scholastic, 2020)

Middle Grade fiction

  • Clean Getaway (Crown Books for Young Readers, 2020)

Essays and short stories

  • "Old Wild Eyes" (The Hanging Garden, 2017)
  • "Near Inception on an Evening in the Summertime" (The Hanging Garden, 2017)
  • "Fit For a Queen" (The Hanging Garden, 2017)
  • "Dream and Dare" (The Hanging Garden, 2017)
  • "Happy Beginning" in Welcome Home, edited by Eric Smith (Flux, 2017)
  • Title TBA in Body Talk, edited by Kelly Jensen (Algonquin Young Readers, 2018)
  • Foreword in We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide, by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden (Bloomsbury UK, 2018)
  • "Grounded" in Snow in Love (Point, 2018) (with stories by Melissa de la Cruz, Aimee Friedman, and Kasie West)
  • Hope Nation: YA Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration, edited by Rose Brock (Philomel, 2018)
  • Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America, edited by Ibi Zoboi (Balzer+Bray, 2019)

References

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  1. ^ Stone, Nic (2017). Dear Martin. United States: Crown Books (Random House). pp. Copyright page. ISBN 9781101939505.
  2. ^ "Nic Stone Books, Author Biography, and Reading Level | Scholastic". www.scholastic.com. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  3. ^ Stone, Nic. "This Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Remember He Was Disobedient". Bustle. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  4. ^ "Nic Stone keeps it real". ajc. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  5. ^ Column, Guest (2017-10-23). "Bestselling Novel 'Dear Martin' Addresses Racial Profiling & Killings of Unarmed Black Teens". WritersDigest.com. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  6. ^ a b c d e February 20, George Nelson |; 2019 (2019-02-20). "'Dear Martin' Author Shares Her Story With Students". Business Journal Daily. Retrieved 2019-05-29. {{cite web}}: |last2= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Foley, Maddy. "How This Author Is Challenging The YA Status Quo With Her #BlackLivesMatter Novel". Bustle. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  8. ^ DEAR MARTIN by Nic Stone | Kirkus Reviews.
  9. ^ Green, Adrienne (2017-11-01). "The Teen Protagonist Writing Letters to Dr. King". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  10. ^ "Young Adult Hardcover Books - Best Sellers - November 5, 2017 - The New York Times". Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  11. ^ SKUENN (2012-02-27). "Morris Award". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  12. ^ "booklist dear martin - Google Search". www.google.de. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  13. ^ "DEAR MARTIN - The Deborah Harris Agency". www.thedeborahharrisagency.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  14. ^ "Young Adult Paperback Books - Best Sellers - The New York Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-15.
  15. ^ CLEAN GETAWAY | Kirkus Reviews.
  16. ^ a b www.publishersweekly.com https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/78160-crown-picks-up-nic-stone-s-debut-middle-grades.html. Retrieved 2020-02-20. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. ^ "Children's Book Review: Clean Getaway by Nic Stone, illus. by Dawud Anyabwile. Crown, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-984892-97-3". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  18. ^ than 200, More; Librarians, 000 Book Reviews for; Groups, Book; Association, book lovers-from the trusted experts at the American Library. Clean Getaway, by Nic Stone | Booklist Online.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ "Children's Middle Grade Hardcover Books - Best Sellers - Jan. 26, 2020 - The New York Times". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  20. ^ "Writing Tips & Insights from Author Nic Stone | WritersDigest.com". WritersDigest.com. 2018-06-02. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  21. ^ "Children's Book Review: Odd One Out by Nic Stone. Crown, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-101-93953-6". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  22. ^ ODD ONE OUT by Nic Stone | Kirkus Reviews.
  23. ^ than 200, Booklist Online: More; Librarians, 000 Book Reviews for; Groups, Book; Association, book lovers-from the trusted experts at the American Library. Odd One Out, by Nic Stone | Booklist Online.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  24. ^ "Nic Stone: How I Write". The Writer. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  25. ^ a b "Exclusive: An original 'Black Panther' novel centered on Shuri will publish next year". EW.com. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
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