The Black Male Archives' Podcast

Jerry Craft New Kid

April 01, 2023 The Black Male Archives Season 5 Episode 9
The Black Male Archives' Podcast
Jerry Craft New Kid
Show Notes

We talk with author JERRY CRAFT. Jerry is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the graphic novels New Kid and Class Act.  New Kid is the only book in history to win the John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature (2020); the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature (2019), and the Coretta Scott King Author Award for the most outstanding work by an African American writer (2020). Jerry was born in Harlem and grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City.

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