Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is the instant New York Times, International bestselling, & Award-winning author of Ace of Spades. She is an avid tea drinker, a collector of strange mugs, and a graduate from a university in the Scottish Highlands where she received a BA in English Literature. She also has an MA in Shakespeare Studies from Kings College London. When she isn’t spinning dark tales, Faridah can be found examining the deeper meanings in Disney channel original movies. SOURCE

Ace of Spades was challenged and initially taken off the shelves of school libraries in Florida, Virginia, and Iowa.

2022 NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens
A 2022 Willam C. Morris Award Finalist
A Junior Library Guild Selection
A YALSA 2022 Best Fiction for Young Adults Finalist
An Amazon Best Book of 2021
A School Library Journal Best Young Adult Book, 2021
A BuzzFeed Best YA Book Covers Of 2021
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2021
An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of 2021
A The Young Folks Best Book Debut of 2021

Contact
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website: https://www.faridahabikeiyimide.com/

Next book: Where Sleeping Girls Lie; March, 2024
Last book: Ace of Spades was Faridah’s debut novel