Description A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault.
Find out more about Laurie by following her on Twitter at @halseanderson, Instagram at halsea.
She lives in Philadelphia, where she enjoys cheesesteaks while she writes.
In addition to combating censorship, Laurie regularly speaks about the need for diversity in publishing and is a member of RAINN\'s National Leadership Council.
Edwards Award and has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English.
Laurie was selected by the American Library Association for the 2009 Margaret A.
Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists, and Chains was short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie Medal.
She has been twice nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
Combined, her books have sold more than eight million copies.
About the author Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers, teens, and new adults.
Shout speaks truth to power in a loud, clear voice-- and once you hear it, it is impossible to ignore.
Searing and soul-searching, this important memoir is a denouncement of our society\'s failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #Me Too and #Times Up, whether aloud, online, or only in their own hearts.
In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she\'s never written about before.
Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless.
Description A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault
