![]() ![]() after he has a dangerous encounter with racist police officers, was sold as a proposal in a two-book deal and published in 2017 by Crown Books for Young Readers. Her debut novel Dear Martin, about a high school senior in a predominantly white school who starts writing letters to Dr. ![]() ![]() That same book later landed her a literary agent. ![]() Stone wrote her first novel for young adults in 2017, inspired by American young adult novelist Veronica Roth's Divergent series because it was the first series featuring black characters that she encountered that lives until the end. Career ĭuring a trip to Israel in 2008, Stone discovered that she wanted to become a writer when encountering a family with a story that fascinated her. After college, she worked in teen mentoring and moved to Israel for a few years. She is African-American and is openly bisexual. She has a degree in Psychology from Spelman College. Stone was born and raised in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Her novels have been translated into six languages. Andrea Nicole Livingstone (born July 10, 1985), known as Nic Stone, is an American author of young adult fiction and middle grade fiction, best known for her debut novel Dear Martin and her middle grade debut, Clean Getaway. ![]()
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