.The recipients of the 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships have been actually revealed. Generally referred to as the Genius Grant, it provides a $800,000 gratuity to each Other, paid over five years. Marlies A. Carruth, Supervisor of the MacArthur Fellows says, "The 2024 MacArthur Fellows pursue rigorous inquiry with ambition and also function. They expose prejudices constructed in to developing modern technologies and social devices as well as pack critical gaps in the knowledge of cycles that preserve lifestyle on Earth. Their job highlights our mutual mankind, focusing the organization of disabled folks, the humor as well as backgrounds of Native neighborhoods, the emotional lifestyles of teenagers, and also viewpoints of country Americans." A lot of the 22 MacArthur Fellows this year have actually published manuals, whether as their line of work, like adolescent and also center quality writer Jason Reynolds, or even due to their job, like disability justice protestor Alice Wong. Here are 10 of this year's MacArthur Fellows that are writers, beginning with those who got the fellowship for their writing.