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Andrew Aydin

Biography

Andrew Aydin

Andrew Aydin, an Atlanta native, currently serves in Rep. John Lewis’ Washington, D.C. office handling telecommunications and technology policy as well as new media. Previously, he served as communications director and press secretary during Rep. Lewis’ 2008 and 2010 re-election campaigns, as district aide to Rep. John Larson, and as special assistant to Connecticut Lt. Governor Kevin Sullivan. Andrew is a graduate of the Lovett School in Atlanta, Trinity College in Hartford, and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

His first graphic novel, MARCH, Book One --- co-authored with Congressman John Lewis --- was a 2014 ALA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book.

Andrew Aydin

Books by Andrew Aydin

March: Book Three
written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell - Graphic Novel, History, Nonfiction

Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and bestselling March trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.

March: Book Two
written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell - Graphic Novel, History, Nonfiction

Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, continues his award-winning graphic novel trilogy with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell. After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence --- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before.

March: Book One
illustrated by Nate Powell written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin - Graphic Novel, Nonfiction

Opening on the morning of President Obama’s inauguration in January 2009, MARCH is a vivid first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis's personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.