Tomi Adeyemi rewrote the YA shelf — and started here.
The Children of Blood and Bone author topped the New York Times list before she was thirty. Twenty years earlier, she was a Red Devil with a notebook.
Before the world tour, before the seven-figure deal, before the trilogy that sold in thirty-plus languages, Tomi Adeyemi was writing in study hall at Hinsdale Central High School. She has credited the school's writing program — and the teachers who took her drafts seriously — as the place where she first understood that the books on the shelves had been written by people, and that she could be one of those people.
The Hall of Fame inducted her in 2021. The induction is a record. The work, of course, is its own record — and the next volume is already being written by Red Devils sitting in those same classrooms today.
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