You finally read Richard Wright's landmark 1945 novel, Black Boy. Up until that point in your life, you hadn't ever read a book from beginning to end. What inspired you to start it? Just a teacher, a professor saying that I needed to get my life together,. And that reading was more valuable than sort of numerical scores and grades.
Jason Reynolds—award-winning author and National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature—discusses his prolific writing career that inspires young readers to discover their own stories.