About Allen

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Allen Zadoff is the author of Wild & Chance, a new MG thriller coming April 2020 from Disney-Hyperion.  He is also the author of the Boy Nobody/Unknown Assassin trilogy as well as several acclaimed novels including Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have, winner of the Sid Fleischman Humor Award and a YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults. Allen's book I AM THE WEAPON, is a page-turning thriller about a teenage assassin that is being developed for film by Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment. The book has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and VOYA and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Kirkus Reviews called I AM THE WEAPON "fast, furious, and fun." Allen is a graduate of Cornell University and the Harvard University Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. His training as a super spy, however, has yet to be verified. If you want to get in touch, you can use Allen's contact page.

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