.The receivers of the 2024 MacArthur Groundwork Fellowships have been actually announced. Commonly called the Genius Grant, it delivers a $800,000 stipend per Other, paid out over five years. Marlies A. Carruth, Supervisor of the MacArthur Fellows states, "The 2024 MacArthur Fellows work toward strenuous concern along with aspiration and also function. They reveal prejudices built right into surfacing innovations and also social units and pack critical voids in the know-how of patterns that preserve lifestyle in the world. Their work highlights our communal humankind, centering the agency of disabled individuals, the personality and past histories of Indigenous neighborhoods, the mental lives of teenagers, and also viewpoints of non-urban Americans." Many of the 22 MacArthur Fellows this year have actually posted books, whether as their occupation, like young person and also middle level author Jason Reynolds, or even due to their work, like special needs fair treatment activist Alice Wong. Here are 10 of the year's MacArthur Fellows who are authors, starting with those who got the alliance for their writing.