Bill Konigsberg

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Bill Konigsberg (born November 11, 1970 in New York City ) is an American author, best known for the LGBT novels Out of the Pocket, Openly Straight , The Porcupine of Truth and Honestly Ben . He lives with his husband outside of Phoenix, Arizona .

life and work

Out of the Pocket won the 2008 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Children's / Young Adult category. His second novel Offen Hetero (English original title: Openly Straight ) was published in June 2013. It received rave reviews in the New York Times and excellent reviews from Booklist and the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. The novel won the 2014 Sid Fleischman Award for Humor and was a finalist for the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award. In 2014, he was also named to YALSA's Best Fiction For Young Adult Lists, the American Library Association Rainbow List, and the Texas Library Association's Tayshas List (as a top ten title) and was nominated for the Georgia Peach Award. The novel has been translated into German, Vietnamese and Portuguese. The Porcupine of Truth was released in June 2015 and won the Stonewall Book Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award, received excellent reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal, and made it onto the Indie Next List, YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults list for 2016, Booklist Best 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 Book Center (CCBC) Choices 2016 List.

In March 2016, Konigsberg released Honestly Ben , the sequel to Open Straight . The book received three excellent reviews: from Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, and School Library Journal. Both novels in the series were also released as audiobooks that month.

Before he became a writer, Konigsberg was a sports journalist. As a sports journalist and editor for The Associated Press from 2005 to 2008, he covered the New York Mets and his weekly fantasy baseball column appeared in newspapers across the country, from the New York Daily News to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . In May 2001 while he was working for ESPN.com, the front page of the website had an article entitled "Sports World Still a Struggle for Gays" which he read below Year brought the GLAAD Media Award .

Since then, he has spoken in numerous places across the country about what it's like to be a gay person in the world of sports. Some of the publications he has written for include The New York Times , North Jersey Herald and News, and The Denver Post. His work has also appeared in Out Magazine . In 2011, his coming out was named number 64 in gay sports history by Outsports.com. His story was included as a chapter in the book Jocks 2: Coming Out to Play by Dan Woog.

Konigsberg's coming-of-age novel The Music of What Happens was published on February 26, 2019. The German translation by Ralf Schmitz is due to be published by One Verlag on November 27, 2020 . The book was named “Best Fiction for Young Adults” by YALSA in 2020 and entered the 2020 “Rainbow Book List” as a top ten title.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards . Lambda Literary. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
  2. ↑ Books | Bill Konigsberg Online . Bill Konigsberg. Retrieved April 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ Review - Openly Straight and Rapture Practice .
  4. ↑ SCBWI Sid Fleischman Award Winners . Retrieved July 4, 2018.
  5. ^ Walden Award . Retrieved July 4, 2018.
  6. ↑ YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults . Retrieved July 4, 2018.
  7. ↑ a b Books | Bill Konigsberg Online . Bill Konigsberg. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  8. ^ Sports World Still a Struggle for Gays . ESPN , May 24, 2001.
  9. ↑ About Bill | Bill Konigsberg Online . Bill Konigsberg. Retrieved April 29, 2013.
  10. ↑ 2020 Best Fiction for Young Adults . Young Adult Library Services Association. Accessed August 31, 2020.
  11. ↑ The 2020 Rainbow Book List . Accessed August 31, 2020.


personal data
SURNAME Konigsberg, Bill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City