![]() ![]() So we could murder the man who murdered our friend. That night my friends and I went to his mom’s house and we were all planning to figure out who did this to him so we could exact revenge. When I was 19, a friend of mine was murdered. The starting point for Long Way Down came from personal experience. Told in verse, it follows Will, a 15-year-old boy out for revenge after his older brother is shot dead. Now one of Reynolds’s books, Long Way Down, is being released in the UK. ![]() He was also recently named on the Guardian’s Frederick Douglass 200 list, which honours the 200 living individuals who best embody the work and spirit of the American abolitionist and politician. He has published a dozen novels – mostly for young adults – in the US, has been a National Book award finalist and is a fixture on the New York Times bestseller list. But it might be his atypical background that allows him to connect so powerfully with teenage readers. J ason Reynolds, a 34-year-old from Washington DC, didn’t grow up expecting to be a writer: indeed, he was 17 before he read a book from start to finish. ![]()
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