Jaime Adoff is the author of the critically acclaimed The Song Shoots Out of My Mouth: A Celebration of Music, a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book; Names Will Never Hurt Me, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults nominee; and Jimi and Me, winner of the 2006 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent. He is the son of the late Newbery Award–winning author Virginia Hamilton and renowned poet Arnold Adoff.