'He believed that communion could be jelly doughnuts and black coffee as easily as it could be bread and wine,' Anderson wrote of her father. Photo by Joyce TennesonCentral New York author Laurie ...

Acute anorexia, self-mutilation, dysfunctional families and the death of a childhood friend—returning to psychological minefields akin to those explored in Speak ...

Twenty years ago, Laurie Halse Anderson's felt driven by a voice in her head to write a book about a young girl who was raped just before she entered high school. This book was "Speak." It sparked ...

If you came of age in the last 15 years or so, there’s a good chance you read Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Maybe it was assigned reading, or maybe you, in circumstances similar to mine, learned of ...

2019-03-30T17:44:55-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/30e/20190330175714002_hd.jpgAuthors Laurie Halse Anderson (Shout) and Jason Reynolds (Long Way Down) talked ...

Laurie Halse Anderson is one of the most iconic children's authors of our time — she's best known for her work on consent and sexual assault, and books Speak and Chains —but she's also a close friend ...

Award-winning author Laurie Halse Anderson discusses how sexual abuse can shame many into silence, and why she named her new memoir recounting her own personal experience with sexual abuse, “Shout.” ...

A few days after a New York jury found Hollywood super-producer Harvey Weinstein guilty of two felony sex crimes, author Laurie Halse Anderson was at a writers’ retreat in the Poconos thinking about ...

More than 20 years after the success of her groundbreaking YA novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson is raising her voice with SHOUT. The author’s powerful memoir reveals her own history as a survivor of ...

Long before there was #MeToo, there was “Speak.” Published in 1999, Laurie Halse Anderson’s semi-autobiographical novel about rape was a bestseller and later a movie starring Kristen Stewart. It ...

It’s been lauded and assigned as part of the curriculum at schools around the nation. It’s been on the American Library Association’s most frequently banned list because of its subject matter. The one ...