He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, writing for the school paper, The Daily Tar Heel.
[1] He has authored The Queen of Katwe,[2] a book about the Ugandan junior woman chess master Phiona Mutesi.
This book was selected by Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading and favorably reviewed by The Washington Post.
He also co-authored Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court,[3] which rose to #15 on The New York Times Best Seller list.
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