Bankston

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, John Bankston began writing professionally whilestill a teenager. Bankston is the author of more than 100 nonfiction books forchildren and young adults, including Mitchell Lane biographies of Abby Wambach,Kevin Durant and Selena Gomez. His favorite part of writing biographies like thisone, is writing about the challenges the subjects faced and how they overcomethem. Often the challenge-like Donovan Mitchell's broken wrist-changed thedirection of their life.