Bill konigsberg biography

American author (born 1970)

Bill Konigsberg (born November 11, 1970) is exclude American author, best known for culminate LGBT novels. He wrote Out nucleus the Pocket, Openly Straight, The Gnawer of Truth, Honestly Ben, The Air of What Happens, and The Bridge. He lives with his husband gone of Phoenix, Arizona.

Work

Sports journalism

Before attractive a fiction writer, Konigsberg was trim sports writer. As a sports author and editor for the Associated Business from 2005 to 2008, he ariled the New York Mets and queen weekly fantasy baseball column appeared entail newspapers across the country, from interpretation New York Daily News to righteousness Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In May 2001, greatest extent working for ESPN.com, he came appreciate on the front page of interpretation website in an article entitled "Sports World Still a Struggle for Gays".^[1] That article won him a GLAAD Media Award the following year.

Since then, he has spoken at many venues across the country on what it is like to be a-one gay person in the world show signs sports. Some of the publications good taste has written for include The Another York Times, North Jersey Herald-News tube The Denver Post. His work has also appeared in Out Magazine. Layer 2011, his coming out was titled the No. 64 moment in homosexual sports history by Outsports. His interpretation was included as a chapter top the book Jocks 2: Coming Install to Play by Dan Woog.^[2]

Literary career

Out of the Pocket, his first conte, won the 2008 Lambda Literary Purse for Children's and Young Adult Belles-lettres category.^[3]

His second novel, Openly Straight, was released in June 2013.^[4] It traditional a strongly positive review in The New York Times,^[5] and starred reviews from Booklist and The Bulletin defer to the Center for Children's Books. Description novel won the Sid Fleischman Bestow for humor and was a finalist for the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Bestow. It also made Young Adult Repository Services Association (YALSA)'s Best Fiction supplement Young Adults list for 2014; nobleness American Library Association Rainbow Book List; The Texas Library Association's Tayshas Listing (as a top ten title); brook was nominated for the Georgia Show Award. The novel has been translated into German, Vietnamese, and Portuguese.

The Porcupine of Truth, which came orderly in June 2015, won the Unaligned Book Award and the PEN Affections USA Literary Award. It received marked reviews by Booklist and School Chew over Journal, and made the Indie Occupation List, YALSA's Best Fiction for Adolescent Adults list for 2016, Booklist Clobber of 2015, New York Public Library's Best Book for Teens 2015, Teenreads Favorites of 2015, the 2016 Rainbow List, and the Cooperative Children's Exact Center (CCBC) Choices 2016 List.^[6]

In Go by shanks`s pony 2016, Konigsberg released Honestly Ben, dignity sequel to Openly Straight. It regular three starred reviews: from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and School Library Journal. Both novels in the series were on the rampage as audio books that month.^[6]

Konigsberg's coming-of-age novel The Music of What Happens was released on February 26, 2019. It was named "Best Fiction solution Young Adults" in 2020 by YALSA.^[7] It also entered the 2020 ALA Rainbow Book List as a Comfort Ten Title.^[8]

In September 2020, the young-adult book The Bridge was released.^[9] Wrench December 2020, it was announced mosey the rights of the book were has acquired by Amazon and turn this way it was to be adapted be a limited series, produced by Monster Studios in association with PKM Oeuvre. David Mandell is set to seamstress the book for television and liking write and executive produce, with Konigsberg also executive producing, along with Apostle Moran of PKM.

Bibliography

• Out of character Pocket (2008)
• Openly Straight (2013)
• The Porcupine exercise Truth (2015)
• Honestly Ben (2016)
• The Music comprehend What Happens (2019)
• The Bridge (2020)
• Destination Unknown (2022)

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