Francisco X Stork

Francisco X. Stork (born 1953 in Monterrey, Mexico) is a Mexican-American author of young adult realistic fiction, best known for Marcelo in the Real World (2009), winner of the Schneider Family Book Award, and other acclaimed novels like The Memory of Light (2016) and Disappeared (2017), a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book. Born to a single mother and adopted by Charles Stork, he immigrated to the U.S. at age nine, attended Harvard and Columbia Law School, practiced law until 2015, and has received multiple awards including the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award for The Last Summer of the Death Warriors (2010). Bookreporter, Literary Arts