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BornAlbert Watkins Key, Jr.
(1970-10-28) October 28, 1970 (age 54)
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S.
OccupationWriter
NationalityFlag of the United States.svg  American
Education Birmingham–Southern College (BA)
Spring Hill College (MBA)
Notable worksAlabama Moon,( ISBN   978-0-374-30184-2 (1st edition hardback) [1]
Dirt Road Home, [2]
Fourmile [3]
Notable awardsE.B. White Read-Aloud Award (2007) [4] [5] [6]
SpouseKatie Feore Key (1994–present)
ChildrenAdele Key, Albert Key, and Mary Michael Key

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. [7] [8] A resident of Alabama, [9] his debut novel Alabama Moon [10] 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. [11] [12] 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. [13] [14]

Contents

Alabama Moon was made into a 2009 feature film starring John Goodman. [15] [16] [17] [18]

Personal life

Watt Key is a graduate of Bayside Academy in Daphne, Alabama and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Birmingham–Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. He earned his Masters of Business Administration from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. While working as a computer programmer, he began submitting novels to publishers in New York City. When he was 34, he sold his debut novel, Alabama Moon, to publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Watt currently lives with his wife and three children in Mobile, Alabama.

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Published works

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Memoir, essays

Screenplays

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  2. ↑ Dirt Road Home by Watt Key. Square Fish. 2011. p.  240. ISBN   978-0-3743-0863-6.
  3. ↑ Fourmile by Watt Key. Square Fish. 2014. p. 256. ISBN   978-1-2500-3995-8.
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  57. ↑ Newberry, Jenny. "Who Are the Main Characters in the Book "Alabama Moon"?". Film Festivals portal & social network. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  58. ↑ Watt Key (6 December 2011). Dirt Road Home. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN   978-0-3126-7435-9.
  59. ↑ Watt Key (6 December 2011). Dirt Road Home (eBook). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN   978-1-4299-3335-3.
  60. ↑ Watt Key (6 December 2011). Dirt Road Home (Hardcover). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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  63. ↑ Key, Watt (September 2015). Among the Swamp People: Life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta by Watt Key. ISBN   978-0-8173-1885-7 . Retrieved 27 February 2015.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  64. ↑ Watt Key (January 2016). Terror at Bottle Creek. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN   9780--3743-7430-3.
  65. ↑ "Swamp Writer: The Trailer Park- text by Watt Key, illustration by Kelan Mercer". Mobile Bay Magazine (February 2013). Retrieved 7 March 2015.
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