Nick Brooks
Nick Brooks is an American author, filmmaker and rapper under the stage name, Ben Kenobe. He wrote the middle-grade novel, Nothing Interesting Ever Happens to Ethan Fairmont, published in 2022, and YA novel, Promise Boys, published in 2023. His short film, BEE, debuted at the 2020 American Black Film Fest. Life and career 
Nick Brooks was born in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Howard University, George Mason University, and from University of Southern California, with a M.F.A. in Film and TV Production, in 2020. At USC his films earned him the George Lucas Scholar Award, and the Jack Larson and James Bridges Award for Writing and Directing. In 2021 Macmillan Publishing pre-empted Brooks' YA debut, Promise Boys, with a book deal. Bibliography 

 Nothing Interesting Ever Happens to Ethan Fairmont, Union Square Publishing, 2022. Promise Boys Henry Holt, 2023. References

External links 
 
 Nick Brooks on his new young adult novel 'Promise Boys' NPR, January 29, 2023

1989 births
Living people
21st-century African-American writers
21st-century American novelists
African-American novelists
Writers from Washington, D.C.
Howard University alumni