Tomi Adeyemi

Tomi Adeyemi born August 1 1993 is a NigerianAmerican writer and creative writing coach She is best known for her novel Children of Blood and Bone the first in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers which debuted 1 on The New York Times Best Sellers List and won the 2018 Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy the 2019 Waterstones Book Prize and the 2019 Hugo Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book In 2019 she was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and in 2020 she was named to the TIME 100 Most Influential People of 2020 in the Pioneers category In 2022 Paramount Pictures was developing Children of Blood and Bone into a major motion picture with Gina PrinceBythewood attached to direct Description above from the Wikipedia article Tomi Adeyemi licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia