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Wab Kinew 

Canadian

Onigaming Ojibwe Nation

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Wab Kinew is the bestselling, award-winning author of the picture book Go Show the World and the memoir The Reason You Walk. A member of the Midewin and an Honorary Witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, he is also a former journalist, hip-hop artist, and television host. Kinew, who is leader of the provincial NDP in Manitoba, lives in Winnipeg with his family. This fall he will publish his first YA novel, Walking in Two Worlds.