Neal Shusterman is an American novelist and screenwriter, born on 12 November 1962 in Brooklyn, New York, who writes mainly for young adults. His Unwind dystology (2007–2014) imagines a society that harvests teenagers for their organs. Challenger Deep (2015), drawn from his son Brendan's experience of mental illness, won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The Arc of a Scythe trilogy — Scythe (2016), Thunderhead (2018) and The Toll (2019) — is set in a world where death has been conquered; Scythe received a Printz Honor. With his son Jarrod Shusterman he co-wrote Dry (2018).
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Neal Shusterman is an American novelist and screenwriter, born on 12 November 1962 in Brooklyn, New York, who writes mainly for young adults. His Unwind dystology (2007–2014) imagines a society that harvests teenagers for their organs. Challenger Deep (2015), drawn from his son Brendan's experience of mental illness, won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The Arc of a Scythe trilogy — Scythe (2016), Thunderhead (2018) and The Toll (2019) — is set in a world where death has been conquered; Scythe received a Printz Honor. With his son Jarrod Shusterman he co-wrote Dry (2018).
