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 ...

“What’s your name, man? Alexander Hamilton.” Whether you’re a history buff or a musical lover, it’s likely you know a thing or two about Alexander Hamilton—one of America’s most influential founding ...

I'm Rachel Martin, in this holiday season, joined by our poet in residence Kwame Alexander. Hello, Kwame. KWAME ALEXANDER, BYLINE: Hello. I'm so excited to be here at this time of year. Like, do you ...

Edited by Nick Healy. Capstone/Switch Press, $16.99 (232p) ISBN 978-1-63079-012-7 More than 40 brief true stories from Pete Hautman, Alison McGhee, Adam Rex, Jon Scieszka and others address a vast ...

Yesterday afternoon, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America hosted a book talk featuring Stephon Alexander’s ScM’95 ScM’96 PhD ’00 “Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to ...

Kwame Alexander writes books that bend genres — novels about middle school boys, written not in prose but verse. And he does it well: His book The Crossover won the Newbery Medal last year for ...

FRANKLIN — Tamera Alexander stuffed her hands in her pockets as she walked the rows of the McGavock Confederate Cemetery at Carnton. Alexander just released her historical fiction book "With This ...

It’s time for a trip down memory lane. If you grew up reading picture books, chances are you’re familiar with Judith Viorst’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Originally ...

Just south of Market Street, where the very air of San Francisco seems thickened by a fog of bits, there's a redoubt of old-school print. Alexander Book Co. has been in business since 1990. Since the ...

“I wish I could try a cooler demeanor,” author Judith Viorst told PW. “But I’m very cheerful!” It is indeed a very exciting time for Viorst – as well as for a certain loveably disgruntled boy with gum ...