Jerry Craft is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the graphic novels New Kid and Class Act and the newly released School Trip. New Kid is the only book in history to win the John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature (2020); the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature (2019), and the Coretta Scott King Author Award for the most outstanding work by an African American writer (2020). Jerry was born in Harlem and grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City. Craft is a graduate of Riverdale Country Day School. Visit his website for more information at https://jerrycraft.com/

John Patrick Green is a human with the human job of making books about animals with human jobs, notably the smash-hit graphic novel series InvestiGators. John is definitely a multiple New York Times-bestselling human author and not just a bunch of animals in trench coats pretending to have human jobs. With over a million copies of InvestiGators in print, John is a successful human being with only two hands and a normal amount of fur. He has worked on comics for DC Comics, Nickelodeon, DreamWorks, and Scholastic Graphix. Kitten Construction Company is John’s second graphic novel as writer and artist, following 2016’s Hippopotamister, also published by First Second. John lives in Brooklyn with zero cats and way too many LEGOs. If he ever got around to updating his website, you’d be able to see more of his work at johngreenart.com. John will also visit Dalton for HeroCon, on June 3. Look for more information, coming soon.