Kekla magoon biography for kids

American author (born )

Kekla Magoon (born ) is an American author, best known for her NAACP Image Award-nominated young adult novel The Rock and the River, How It Went Down, The Season of Styx Malone, and X. In , she received the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association for her body of work.

Her works also include middle grade novels, short stories, and historical, socio-political, and economy-related non-fiction.

Personal life

Magoon was born in Michigan and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana.^[1] She is the biracial daughter of a white American mother with Dutch and Scottish ancestry and a black Cameroonian father.^[1] As a child, she spent a few years living in Cameroon.^[1]

Prior to becoming a writer, she worked for non-profit organizations in New York City.^[1] She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University, where she majored in History, with a concentration on Africa and