Bill Konigsberg is the award-winning author of seven young adult novels and recipient of the PEN Center USA Literary Award, Stonewall Book Award, Sid Fleischman Award for Humor, and the Lambda Literary Award. In 2018, The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)’s Assembly on Literature for Adolescents (ALAN) established the Bill Konigsberg Award for Acts and Activism for Equity and Inclusion through Young Adult Literature.