Banned book author Laurie Halse Anderson on why her work is ...

Q&A: Laurie Halse Anderson tells The News-Journal about book banning, censorship and why she writes about difficult teenage experiences.

Best-Selling Author Laurie Halse Anderson on Challenging Iowa's ...

“Speak” is based on Anderson's personal experience with sexual assault as a teenager. The new Iowa law, Senate File 496, sought to ban books ...

Laurie Halse Anderson: Speaking for the Voiceless - PEN America

Laurie Halse Anderson: Speaking for the Voiceless · When people are trying to ban my books, it's because they feel I'm talking about sex in a way ...

Laurie Halse Anderson Discusses Censorship, its Frightening ...

The author of Speak and SHOUT sees dangerous differences between past attempts to ban books and the current, coordinated censorship attacks.

Banned Books: One Author's Story - News for Authors

In early March, Laurie Halse Anderson, acclaimed Penguin Random House author of Shout, Chains, and Speak, attended a school board meeting in Pennsylvania's ...

Laurie Halse Anderson on Censorship - YouTube

Laurie Halse Anderson's celebrated young adult novel "Speak" tells the story of Melinda, a high school student who stops speaking after a ...

Award-winning author, plaintiff in Volusia lawsuit talks Florida book ...

Laurie Halse Anderson: I had a really rough high school experience. I was raped just before ninth grade started, and because of some challenges ...

Banned Books discussion Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Their real objection is Laurie Halse Anderson's message: This is not your fault. For religious fundamentalists, that is heresy. Boys will be ...

Laurie Halse Anderson will not be silenc-ED about those bans.

Likewise, author Laurie Halse Anderson, whose breakout, Speak, deals with rape, has found herself defending her work (a fine irony for those who ...

Student Banned Book Review: Speak - Jim Dan Hill Library

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is a novel that frequents the banned and challenged list. This novel follows Melinda Sordino and her experiences through high ...

Challenges to Twisted - Laurie Halse Anderson

“I am the author of TWISTED. It is my understanding that my book is about to be removed from a classroom in your school, because a parent or parents do not ...

'Speak' author Laurie Halse Anderson advocates for the freedom to ...

Laurie Halse Anderson wrote Speak, a 1999 young adult novel about a teenager who stops talking after she is sexually assaulted.

Banned Books: One Author's Story - Penguin Random House

Opening up about her work as an author and the life events that she so often writes about in her books, Anderson quickly captured the attention of those in the ...

Velshi Banned Book Club: Laurie Halse Anderson and the coalition ...

Laurie Halse Anderson's award-winning “Speak”, is an unflinching exploration of the immediate aftermath of rape, and the emotional ...

On Banning Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak - Shannon Fallon

Shannon Fallon is an aspiring author currently developing her debut novel The Binding of Magic. She lives in Wisconsin with her cat ...

Exclusive interview: 2023 ALMA winner Laurie Halse Anderson ...

“The rape scene in 'Speak' is remembered three-quarters of the way through the book. When I was writing the book I was very mindful of the fact ...

'Banning' sexually explicit books is 'government overreach,' author ...

"Shout" details Anderson's own experience being sexually assaulted at 13 years old. It is a follow-up to her novel "Speak," which covers the ...

Author Laurie Halse Anderson wants young people to connect with ...

Her 2007 book Twisted has been banned because it features sex, child abuse, suicide and drug abuse. Anderson, a 1979 Fayetteville-Manlius High ...

#VelshiBannedBookClub: 'Speak,' with Laurie Halse Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson's “Speak” poignantly explores the immediate aftermath and emotional repercussions of sexual assault.

Banned Books 2022 - Speak - Marshall Libraries

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie were also challenged and removed from ...