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ANDREW AYDIN is a National Book Award winner and #1 New York Times best-selling author. Aydin is creator and co-author of the graphic memoir series, MARCH, which chronicles the life of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, as well as the sequel, RUN. Co-authored with Rep. Lewis and illustrated by Nate Powell, MARCH is the first comics work to ever win the National Book Award. Aydin is also a recipient of the Coretta Scott King Book Award, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, three Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Carter G. Woodson Book Award, the Illinois Literary Heritage Award, and the Walter Dean Myers Book Award, among many others.
Aydin is a Creator-in-Residence at the Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII) at Georgia State University in Atlanta and formerly served as Digital Director & Policy Advisor to Rep. Lewis in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Trinity College in Hartford and Georgetown University in Washington, Aydin wrote his master’s thesis on the history and impact of Martin Luther King & The Montgomery Story, establishing much of what we know about the comic today. Aydin often participates in reading programs with incarcerated youth, speaks at schools and universities, and has appeared as a guest on the Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, NPR, CNN, PBS, the BBC and many other programs and networks.
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