Upcoming Events at Benaroya Hall
Fri May 4, 7:30 PM - Fri May 4, 9:30 PM
200 University St, Seattle, WA 98101
Community: Downtown Seattle
Description
Join us for an exciting conversation with two New York Times best-selling young adult authors Jenny Han and Nicola Yoon, moderated by Martha Brockenbrough.
Event Details
JENNY HAN is the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer I Turned Pretty series; Shug; the Burn for Burn trilogy, cowritten with Siobhan Vivian; and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and P.S. I Still Love You. She is also the author of the chapter book Clara Lee and The Apple Pie Dream. A former children’s bookseller, she earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the New School. Visit her at DearJennyHan.com.
NICOLA YOON is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the young adult novel Everything, Everything, which is now a major motion picture starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson, and The Sun is Also a Star, a National Book Award finalist, Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and Coretta Scott King New Talent Award winner. She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, and lives in Los Angeles with her family.
MARTHA BROCKENBROUGH (rhymes with broken toe) is the author of two books for adults and five books for young readers (with three more on the way in 2017). A faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts and blogger for the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators,* she’s also the founder of National Grammar Day (every March 4), and she’s written game questions for Cranium and Trivial Pursuit. The former editor of MSN.com, Brockenbrough has interviewed lots of celebrities, including the Jonas Brothers and Slash (his favorite dinosaur is the diplodocus). Her work has been published in a variety of places, including The New York Times. She also wrote an educational humor column for the online encyclopedia Encarta for nine years. She lives in Seattle with her family.
NICOLA YOON is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the young adult novel Everything, Everything, which is now a major motion picture starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson, and The Sun is Also a Star, a National Book Award finalist, Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and Coretta Scott King New Talent Award winner. She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, and lives in Los Angeles with her family.
MARTHA BROCKENBROUGH (rhymes with broken toe) is the author of two books for adults and five books for young readers (with three more on the way in 2017). A faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts and blogger for the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators,* she’s also the founder of National Grammar Day (every March 4), and she’s written game questions for Cranium and Trivial Pursuit. The former editor of MSN.com, Brockenbrough has interviewed lots of celebrities, including the Jonas Brothers and Slash (his favorite dinosaur is the diplodocus). Her work has been published in a variety of places, including The New York Times. She also wrote an educational humor column for the online encyclopedia Encarta for nine years. She lives in Seattle with her family.
