Watt Key is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and essayist writing about the people and places of the Deep South. His work ranges from middle-grade adventure novels to Southern thrillers and collections of true stories inspired by life along the Gulf Coast and in the Mississippi Delta..

Watt also publishers horror for more mature audiences as Albert Key.

His debut novel, ALABAMA MOON, was published to international acclaim in 2006. ALABAMA MOON won the 2007 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award, the 2006 Parent’s Choice Gold Award. is listed on the ‘100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time’ list by Time Magazine, and has been translated into eight languages.

All of Watt’s books are highly awarded and widely used in school curriculum.

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