if we were in NY at the time (and we might be, due to business travel. This is as much a note to me as to any of you who might be interested…). But it’s a topic which I often find myself considering. One which the author, finally, has to handle himself or herself: but other people’s take on the problem would be interesting to hear. And I’d go a long distance, in any case, to hear Joyce Carol Oates talk about anything whatsoever.<\/p>\n
15 May – PEN CHILDREN’S BOOK PROGRAM: DARK REALITIES: HOW MUCH TRUTH CAN AUTHORS SHARE WITH YOUNG READERS AND WHAT MIGHT BE BOUNDARIES TO OBSERVE, BARRIERS TO BREAK THROUGH?<\/p>\n
Participants:
\nCHRISTOPHER PAUL CURTIS received the Newbery Award and the Coretta Scott King Award for his second novel, Bud, not Buddy. His first novel, The Watsons Go To Birmingham–1963, was a Newbery Honor Book.<\/p>\n
PATRICIA REILLY GIFF is the author of over sixty books for children. She has received Newbery Honor Awards for her novels, Pictures of Hollis Woods and Lilly’s Crossing. The latter was also a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book. Texas Bluebonnet Award.<\/p>\n
WALTER DEAN MYERS is the author of many works for children and young adults. His novel, Monster, was the winner of the Michael L.Printz Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. Struggle for Freedom, Scorpion, and Somewhere in the Darkness were Newbery Honor Books.<\/p>\n
JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author of many novels, short stories, essays, and poetry. Her novel, them, won the National Book Award, and he has had five National Book Award Honor Books. Her most recent work for young adults is Big Mouth and Ugly Girl.<\/p>\n
ADAM RAPP is the author of Missing the Piano, named a 1995 ALA Best Book for Young Adults. His other acclaimed novels include 33 Snowfish and Little Chicago. Mr. Rapp=B9s play, Nocturne, was selected by Burns Mantle as one of the ten best plays of the 2000–2001 season.<\/p>\n
The Moderator will be WENDY LAMB, Vice President and Publishing Director of Wendy Lamb Books\/Random House Children’s Books.<\/p>\n
When: Thursday, May 15 2003, at 7 p.m.
\nWhere: THE STANLEY H. KAPLAN Penthouse, Lincoln Center, Rose Building, 10th Floor. 165 West 65th Street
\nFor reservations call: 334-1660, Extension 107
\nFree for PEN Members: five dollars for non-members
\nPresented by The PEN Children’s Book Authors Committee<\/p>\n
This event is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.<\/p>\n
(Thanks to my friends at the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators<\/a> (see also http:\/\/www.scbwi.org\/), <\/a>who sent me this heads-up in one of their weekly e-mails.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" if we were in NY at the time (and we might be, due to business travel. This is as much a note to me as to any of you who…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n