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Posted by: Neely Tucker
"Hearing Black Voices" is one of the major threads at the 2020 National Book Festival, featuring an array of prominent Black authors.
Posted in: African American History, National Book Festival, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The 2020 National Book Festival will feature three major threads -- "Fearless Women, "Hearing Black Voices" and "Democracy in the 21st Century" -- that will anchor the Library's 20th festival and its first virtual one. This post focuses on "Fearless Women."
Posted in: National Book Festival, Poetry, U.S. Poet Laureate, Women's History, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Rick Atkinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose books include "An Army at Dawn," The Day of Battle," "The Guns at Last Light," and "Battle of the Bulge," writes about the lasting impact of World War II on American society.
Posted in: History, Veterans History Project, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature, writes about the problems of posing for photographs in his August newsletter.
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jason Reynold's "Grab the Mic" July Newsletter.
Posted in: Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
How would freed slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass have sounded while delivering one of his classic speeches? A speech on John Brown offers a few clues.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, African American History, Civil War, Manuscripts, Newspapers, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The June newsletter from Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Children's author Dav Pilkey gives a quick tutorial in how to paint two characters from Dog Man, Molly and Melvin, who make an appearance in his newest book in the series, "Grime and Punishment."
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jason Reynolds, the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, is back this week with two writing challenges. One is playful, the other is more thoughtful.
Posted in: National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Writers