This spurred on his love of reading, especially of sports-related texts. Books were everywhere in his house, but Alexander was more interested in basketball-until, one night, he discovered Muhammad Ali’s autobiography The Greatest and devoured it in one night. His mother was a folklorist and English teacher who loved to tell Alexander and his siblings stories, and his father was an academic who pushed dissertations and heavy philosophical tomes on his son.
Kwame Alexander is an American poet, novelist, and educator perhaps best known for his Newbury-Medal-winning novel for young people, The Crossover.Īlexander was born in Brooklyn in 1968 to a very artistically inclined family.
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