Press Kit

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Chris Negron resides in Forsyth County, GA and is the author of several novels for children. His 2020 debut, Dan Unmasked, was a finalist for Georgia Author of the Year in the Young Adult category in 2021, was nominated for the Sakura Medal in Japan in 2023, was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, and was selected for the Indies Introduce list by the American Booksellers Association (ABA).

He often describes his second novel, The Last Super Chef as “Willy Wonka meets Gordon Ramsey.” It was named to the Indies Next list in 2021, again by the ABA. Chris’s latest novel, Underdog City, released this past fall and was published, as all three of his novels are, by HarperCollins. It features plenty of dogs, an ornery rooster, and a main character fighting through feelings of anxiety in an attempt to bring his community together. Publishers Weekly calls it a “discerning celebration of connection and healing.”

Chris holds a Computer Science degree from Yale University. His desire to write started young, an outcropping of his years of playing Dungeons & Dragons in friends’ basements. But he didn’t truly start his pursuit of this lifelong dream until much later. He’s usually inspired to write stories for kids about the things he loves most, including comic books, baseball, competitive cooking shows, and dogs. Visit him at chrisnegron.com.

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Chris Negron is the author of several novels for children, including Georgia Author of the Year finalist and Sakura Medal nominee Dan Unmasked. His latest novel, Underdog City, released in the fall of 2023, again from HarperCollins. He holds a Computer Science degree from Yale University, but it was his years of playing Dungeons & Dragons in friends’ basements that inspired him to write stories about the things he loves, including comic books, baseball, competitive cooking shows, and dogs. Visit him at chrisnegron.com.