David Levithan is an American author of young adult fiction and nonfiction. In 2006, he won the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award, which recognizes "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature." He is also the founding editor of the PUSH imprint, which is devoted to finding new voices and new authors in teen literature. He co-authored the non-fiction The Fight of Our Lives, a National Book Award finalist, with Gabriel Duckels.