Watt Key

Who is this?

Albert Watkins Key Jr., publishing under the name Watt Key and Albert Key, is an American fiction author who is known for writing young-adult survival fiction. A resident of Alabama, his debut novel Alabama Moon was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2006 and was the 2007 winner of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award for older readers. It received a 2006 Parents' Choice Award. Alabama Moon has been translated and published in eight languages. In 2015 Alabama Moon was listed by TIME Magazine as one of the top 100 young-adult books of all time. Alabama Moon was made into a 2009 feature film starring John Goodman.

Career

1. 1970
   Born
2. 2007
   Won E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Middle Readers

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Tuscaloosa
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: writer, children's writer, novelist