'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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anderson first wrote about sexual assault and its aftermath in the groundbreaking, award-winning fictional novel Speak (loosely ...

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 ...

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 ...

Laurie Halse Anderson is done staying silent. She's done whispering. She's done speaking. Now, she's shouting. In her forthcoming poetic memoir, SHOUT, the beloved young adult author of Speak writes ...

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.” ...

2023 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award winner Laurie Halse Anderson has pledged $100,000 of her prize money to PEN America in support of the organization’s efforts to combat censorship. Anderson is ...

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 ...

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 ...