Ronald L.
He is much happier writing books for young people..
Before he became a full-time writer, he worked in advertising and wrote TV commercials for big corporations.
His first novel, Hoodoo , earned him the 2016 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award and the International Literacy Association Award for Intermediate Fiction.
Smith i s an award-winning writer of children\'s literature including the middle grade novels Black Panther: The Young Prince , The Mesmerist , The Owls Have Come To Take Us Away , and Gloomstown , a Junior Library Guild Selection.
Ronald L