R.A. Nelson
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Alabama, United States |
| Introduction | Official: Author of the novels Teach Me, Breathe My Name, Days of Little Texas, and Throat (January, 2011). Chosen as a Horn Book Newcomer and his books have been nominated to the YALSA Best Books for Young Adults list, recognized by the Parents’ Choice Awards, the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age list, Booksense Kid Picks, the Miami Herald Best Books of the Year, teenreads.com Best Books of the year, and the Michigan Library Thumbs Up! list (Top Twenty), among other awards and lists. His novels are also popular in Germany. TEACH ME has been optioned by Protagonist Films for a feature film. R.A. Nelson lives in North Alabama and works at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. He is the recipient of NASA's prestigious Silver Snoopy Award for "outstanding support provided to the Space Shuttle program." Unofficial: Freaked out by squeaking balloons and exploding cans of biscuits. Can hold his breath for 2 minutes 40 seconds. Has 47 different voices. So horrified by spiders' faces, wrote a poem on the subject. Stops at roadside historical markers when allowed by my family. |
| Interests | Reading, writing, exploring strange/wonderful/historical places, hiking, traveling, string theory and quantum physics, basketball, college football, wildflowers, ancient stone structures, astronomy, archeology, history, old movies, caves, trees, the possibility that people and events long past are somehow still with us, snow, lonely islands, things I see far off the road while driving to faraway places, the inside of my head, life. |