[This author has written numerous books with gay main characters and is considered one of the pioneers of LGBTQ+ YA literature.]
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[Who is David Levithan?]
David Benjamin Levithan was born September 1972 to a family of Jewish ancestry. Levithan graduated high school in 1990 and received an internship at Scholastic Corporation, where he would go on to work as an editorial director. He got his start working on The Baby-Sitters Club book series!
His first novel, Boy Meets Boy, was written as a Valentine's Day gift to a friend. He has continued writing stories for his friends for more than 22 years.
Three of his works have been adapted into film, and he won the Lambda Literary Award twice: in 2003 for Boy Meets Boy, and in 2006 for The Full Spectrum.
In 2016, Levithan received the Margaret Edwards Award during the American Library Association's annual conference in Orlando... only days after the mass shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando. The author used his time accepting the award to speak about love and acceptance. "Raise your voice. Raise other people's voices. Do not let fear rule you. Because fear creates so many of the words we're hearing today."
Levithan lives in New Jersey, prefers vanilla to chocolate, and one of his favorite songs is Transatlanticism by Death Cab For Cutie. You can follow him on Twitter or Facebook.
Visit our catalog to find his works, or click below for some of his best-known titles:
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