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Just two years ago Robert Lipsyte received another award for his great writing for young adults; he received the Edwards Award which shows how much of an impact his writing has had and how great it was. Robert Lipsyte has written many fiction books and only two non-fiction books. When he writes his fiction books he uses experiences that he has had to write the story and he loosely bases some of the story on those experiences. When he writes his non-fiction books he also uses his experiences, but in the non-fiction books he writes the experiences in the book and tells you what his experiences were. He has written many great young adult books and he goes about writing them with a certain idea of how he should write for young adults. When he writes for young adults he says “The main convention is that you’re dealing with somebody in the process of becoming: you’re not dealing with a finished human being yet.”(Galenet) This is how he looks at it when he writes his young adult books and he tries to follow that idea throughout his young adult books. Robert Lipsyte has been one of the great young adult writers and also a very good sportswriter and his experiences have influenced and helped him through out his writing. Ro