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Laurie Halse Anderson, Author. Viking $17.99 (233p) ISBN 978-0-670-03566-3 Like its cross-country–running heroine, Anderson's (Speak) latest novel starts off promisingly, then loses its pacing ...
In her 1999 YA novel of teenage sexual assault and its aftermath, she wanted to "Speak." Now, two decades later, Laurie Halse Anderson is ready to "Shout." The Margaret A. Edwards award-winning ...
April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, and author Laurie Halse Anderson has teamed up with RAINN to fundraise to support the effort to help and heal survivors of sexual assault ...
Laurie Halse Anderson spoke up, and now, she will never hear the end of it. And she is more than OK with that. “I think the struggles so many of us have as adults usually have their roots in ...
A Teenage Wonder Woman Navigates Life as a Refugee in New Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. ... "I've had a very strong connection to Wonder Woman from my own childhood and adolescence.
Laurie Halse Anderson is the author of the groundbreaking 1999 young-adult novel Speak, about a teenager who shuts down after being raped by an upperclassman. Shout, Anderson's new memoir-in-verse ...
Photo by Joyce TennesonCentral New York author Laurie Halse Anderson has written and published a new book, "Forge," and will sign copies at River's End Bookstore in Oswego on Tuesday. By Janet ...
Central New York author Laurie Halse Anderson will sign copies of her latest book, "The Impossible Knife of Memory," at the River's End in Oswego from 1-3 p.m. on Jan. 26. "There's a real class ...
In “Speak” (1999), a teen stops speaking after she is sexually assaulted. The novel — Laurie Halse Anderson’s first — was a National Book Award finalist.