.The receivers of the 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships have been actually revealed. Often known as the Brilliant Grant, it gives a $800,000 gratuity to each Fellow, disbursed over 5 years. Marlies A. Carruth, Supervisor of the MacArthur Fellows says, "The 2024 MacArthur Fellows work toward rigorous query along with desire and objective. They reveal biases developed right into surfacing innovations and social systems and also load essential voids in the expertise of patterns that preserve lifestyle in the world. Their work highlights our communal humanity, centering the agency of handicapped people, the humor and backgrounds of Indigenous communities, the emotional lives of teens, and also viewpoints of rural Americans." Most of the 22 MacArthur Fellows this year have published publications, whether as their line of work, like young adult and middle grade writer Jason Reynolds, or even as a result of their work, like handicap justice activist Alice Wong. Below are actually ten of this year's MacArthur Fellows who are writers, starting with those that obtained the alliance for their writing.