the washington post
wednesday, august
28
,
2019
EZ12
10-10:35: Renée Watson is the best-
selling author of “Piecing Me
Together,” “This Side of Home,” “What
Momma Left Me” and “Betty Before
X” (co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz).
Watson also has two acclaimed
picture books: “A Place Where
Hurricanes Happen” (illustrated by
Shadra Strickland) and “Harlem’s
Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence
Mills” (illustrated by Christian
Robinson). She is the founder of the I,
Too, Arts Collective. A recent book
(with Ellen Hagan) is “Watch Us Rise”
(Bloomsbury), which won a Newbery
Honor and a Coretta Scott King
Award. Watson’s “Some Places More
Than Others” (Bloomsbury) will be
published in early September. Ellen
Hagan is a writer, performer and
educator. Her poetry collections
include “Hemisphere” and
“Crowned.” Her work can be found in
the anthologies “She Walks in
Beauty” (edited by Caroline Kennedy)
and “Southern Sin.” Hagan is the
director of the poetry and theater
departments at the DreamYard
Project and is co-leader of the Alice
Hoffman Young Writers Retreat at
Adelphi University. Signing 11:30-
12:30.
10:50-11:25: Kathleen Glasgow’s
first novel was the bestseller “Girl in
Pieces.” Her new book is “How to
Make Friends with the Dark”
(Delacorte). Signing 12:30-1:30.
11:40-12:15: Scott Westerfeld is
the author of more than 20 novels,
five for adults and the remainder for
young adults. He wrote the best-
selling Uglies series; the Leviathan
series; “Afterworlds”; “Horizon”; and
many other books for young readers.
His recent book is “Impostors”
(Scholastic). Signing 1:30-2:30.
12:30-1:05: Holly Black is the best-
selling author of contemporary
fantasy novels for young adults and
children, including “Tithe: A Modern
Faerie Tale,” the best-selling
Spiderwick Chronicles series (with
Tony DiTerlizzi) and The Curse
Workers series. She has just
published “The Wicked King” (Little,
Brown), a sequel to the best-selling
“The Cruel Prince.” Signing 2:30-3:30.
1:20-2: Conversation: Finding Their
Voices. Mitali Perkins has written
many books for young readers,
including “Rickshaw Girl,” “Bamboo
People,”and “You Bring the Distant
Near,” which was a Walter Award
Honor Book and a National Book
Award nominee. Her new book is
“Forward Me Back to You” (Farrar
Straus Giroux). Misa Sugiura is the
author of “It’s Not Like It’s a Secret,”
which won the Asian/Pacific
American Award for Young Adult
Literature. Her new book is “This
Time Will Be Different”
(HarperTeen). Signing 2:30-3:30.
2:15-2:50: Writer and illustrator
Ngozi Ukazu is the creator of
“Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey”
(First Second). Signing 3:30-4:30.
3:05-3:45: Conversation: Growing Up
Is Hard. Monica Hesse, a columnist
and feature writer for The Washington
Post, is the author of the true-crime
story “American Fire: Love, Arson, and
Life in a Vanishing Land” and the Edgar
Award-winning young adult historical
mystery novel “Girl in the Blue Coat.”
Hesse has been a winner of the Society
for Feature Journalism’s Narrative
Storytelling award and a finalist for a
Livingston Award and a James Beard
Award. Her latest young adult book is
“The War Outside” (Little, Brown).
Jarrett J. Krosoczka is a best-selling
author, a National Book Award finalist,
a two-time winner of the Children’s
Choice Book Award for the Third to
Fourth Grade Book of the Year and a
finalist for the Eisner Comic Industry
award. His work includes several
picture books, select volumes of Star
Wars: Jedi Academy, the Lunch Lady
graphic novel series, the Platypus
Police Squad series and the young
adult graphic memoir “Hey, Kiddo”
(Graphix/Scholastic), a National Book
Award finalist. He is also the host of
“The Book Report with JJK” on
SiriusXM’s “Kids Place Live.” Signing
4:30-5:30.
4-4:40: Australian writer Markus
Zusak is the author of “The Book
Thief” and “I Am the Messenger,” a
Los Angeles Times Book Award
finalist and a Printz Award Honor
book. “The Book Thief” was adapted
into a 2013 film. Zusak’s most
recent book is “Bridge of Clay”
(Knopf). Signing 5:30-6:30.
4:50-5:30: Rainbow Rowell’s
books include “Eleanor & Park,”
“Fangirl,”“Carry On” and the graphic
novel “Pumpkinheads” (First
Second), a collaboration with
cartoonist and illustrator Faith Erin
Hicks. Her book “Wayward Son”
comes out in September. Faith Erin
Hicks is a writer, artist and
cartoonist whose works include the
Nameless City trilogy; the graphic
novels “Friends with Boys” and “The
Adventures of Superhero Girl”; the
comic book series The Last of Us:
American Dreams (with Neil
Druckmann); and “Nothing Can
Possibly Go Wrong” (with writer
Prudence Shen). Signing 6:30-7:30.
Raina Telgemeier, who drew this cartoon for The Post to celebrate the National Book Festival, is the author of the
best-selling graphic memoirs “Smile” and “Sisters.” She will discuss “Share Your Smile: Raina’s Guide to Telling Your
Own Story” on the Main Stage at 4 p.m. and sign books at 1:30. She will also be one of the celebrity judges at thepoetry slam on the Teen Stage at 6 p.m.