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Kwame Alexander, author of The Crossover lives in London.

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Kwame Alexander now lives and writes in London. However, they used to live in Virginia.

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When he’s not writing Kwame’s playing Softball with his soon-to-be six feet tall middle school daughter

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Kwame Alexander was born on August 21, 1968, in Manhattan, New York, to literary parents: his father was a writer and his mother an English teacher. When he was 12 years old his family moved to Virginia.

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Alexander's first poetry collection Just Us was published in 1995.

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Kwame Alexander is a poet and children's author. He is an advocate for children's literacy and believes in teaching the art of writing to young children.

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Alexander studied biochemistry at Virginia Tech but he switched his major to English.

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After meeting Nikki Giovanni, Alexander knew that he wanted to be a writer.

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His given name Kwame comes from Ghana and means "born on a Saturday," although Alexander was born on a Wednesday.

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Kwame's novel, The Crossover, won the Coretta Scott King award in 2015. They has remained a popular book in middle schools for over 8 years.

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