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Jaime Adoff grew up in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and received a Bachelor of Music degree from Central State University in Ohio, where he studied drums and percussion.

Moving to New York City in 1990, he attended the Manhattan School of Music and studied drums and voice. Mr. Adoff then went on to pursue a career in songwriting and fronted his own rock band for eight years. He released two CD’s of his own material and performed extensively in New York City and throughout the Northeast.

In 1998 Mr. Adoff turned to writing children’s and young-adult books. He is the author of the award-winning Poetry collection The Song Shoots Out of My Mouth: A Celebration of Music, which was his first publication.
"Names Will Never Hurt Me" is his first young-adult novel and will be published in the Spring of 2004.

He is the son of the Children’s book author Virginia Hamilton and the poet Arnold Adoff.
Jaime Adoff lives in New York City with his wife Mary Ann.

The Song Shoots Out of My Mouth is a Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book for '03,an International Reading Association(IRA) Notable Book for '03, a NY Public Library book for the teenage '03, a VOYA Poetry Pick '02, a BWI Book Wholesalers Staff pick, a CCBC Book of the week and a teenreads.com cool new book.

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