Kennedy Ryan

Romance novelist KENNEDY RYAN. She's the first Black author to win the RITA, romance's highest honor, and she's published more than 20 novels in a little over a decade. She came to fiction after careers in journalism and autism advocacy, and she's known for love stories that center on the people the genre has often left out. Her bestselling novel Before I Let Go is being adapted for Peacock. Her latest, Score, follows two former college sweethearts reunited while making a film about the Harlem Renaissance.