![]() ![]() Prior to becoming a writer, she worked for non-profit organizations in New York City. As a child, she spent a few years living in Cameroon. She is the biracial daughter of a white American mother with Dutch and Scottish ancestry and a black Cameroonian father. ![]() Magoon was born in Michigan and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Her works also include middle grade novels, short stories, and historical, socio-political, and economy-related non-fiction. ![]() In 2021, she received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her body of work. Kekla Magoon is an American author, best known for her NAACP Image Award-nominated young adult novel The Rock and the River, How It Went Down, The Season of Styx Malone, and X. How It Went Down, X, The Rock and the River, The Season of Styx Malone Young adult fiction, middle grade fiction, short stories, non-fiction Vermont College of Fine Arts, Northwestern University ![]()
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