Esther Freier Lecture, April 4

Young People's Lit, with MT Anderson, Kate DiCamillo, David Barclay Moore, & Nicola Yoon
Wednesday, April 4 at 7:30 PM
Northrop Carlson Family Stage, 84 Church Street SE, Minneapolis
See more at https://cla.umn.edu/english/research/esther-freier-lecture

Hear from best-selling and award-winning authors of contemporary middle grade and young adult fiction! The University of Minnesota's Department of English and the Freier Lectures present a panel discussion appropriate for readers of all ages with celebrated writers MT Anderson, Kate DiCamillo, David Barclay Moore, and Nicola Yoon. The authors will also answer audience questions and sign books. Free and open to the public! No tickets or reservations necessary. All welcome!

Anderson is the National Book Award-winning author of The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, the science fiction novels Feed and 2017's Landscape with Invisible Hand, and several other young adult and middle grade novels.

DiCamillo won Newbery Medals for her books Flora & Ulysses and The Tale of Despereaux; the latter was made into a film, as was her first novel Because of Winn-Dixie. She is a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. DiCamillo is also the author of picture books and chapter books; her latest novel is 2016's Raymie Nightingale.

Moore's debut, The Stars Beneath Our Feet, won this year's Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award and was a New York Times notable book of 2017; Michael B. Jordan will direct the movie adaptation.

Yoon's first book, Everything, Everything, is now a major motion picture. Her second, The Sun Is Also a Star, was a National Book Award finalist and Michael L. Printz Honor Book and has also been optioned for film adaptation.

Professor Julie Schumacher, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and author of five novels for younger readers, will moderate the discussion.