Don Brown is the YAL­SA Award for Excel­lence in Non­fic­tion and Sib­ert Hon­or – win­ning author and illus­tra­tor of many non­fic­tion graph­ic nov­els for teens and pic­ture book biogra­phies. He has been wide­ly praised for his res­o­nant sto­ry­telling and his del­i­cate water­col­or paint­ings that evoke the excite­ment, humor, pain, and joy of lives lived with pas­sion. School Library Jour­nal has called him ​“a cur­rent pace­set­ter who has put the fin­ish­ing touch­es on the stan­dards for sto­ryo­gra­phies.” He lives in New York with his family.