Nic Stone is a native of Atlanta and a Spelman College
graduate. After working extensively in teen mentoring and living in
Israel for a few years, she returned to the United States to write
full-time. Dear Martin, her first novel, is loosely based on a
series of true events involving the shooting deaths of unarmed
African American teenagers. Shaken by the various responses to
these incidents—and to the pro-justice movement that sprang up as a
result—Stone began the project in an attempt to examine current
affairs through the lens of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s
teachings.
You can find her fangirling over her husband and sons on Twitter
and Instagram at @getnicced or on her website nicstone.info.
Praise for Dear Martin:
A New York Times Bestseller!
A William C. Morris Award Finalist!
An ALAN / Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Finalist!
A 2018 BookExpo Editors' Buzz Selection!
An Indies Introduce Selection!
A Kids' Indie Next List pick!
“A powerful, wrenching, and compulsively readable story that lays
bare the history, and the present, of racism in America.” –John
Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way
Down
"Painfully timely and deeply moving." –Jodi Picoult,
#1 New York Times bestselling author
"Raw and gripping." –Jason Reynolds, #1 New York Times
bestselling author of Long Way Down
"Absolutely incredible, honest, gut-wrenching. A must
read!" –Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling
author of The Hate U Give
"Teens, librarians and teachers alike will find this book a
godsend...Vivid and powerful." –Booklist, Starred Review
"A visceral portrait of a young man reckoning with the ugly,
persistent violence of social injustice."
–Publishers Weekly
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