Authorfest XXV featuring Joan Bauer!

Press Release Sherman Library

Popular award winning author Joan Bauer will discuss her books for teens on Authorfest is sponsored by The Friends of the Sherman Public Library and The Sherman Council for Arts and Humanities.

Joan Baurer

Thursday, January 23 in the Hope Waller Community Room of the Sherman Public Library. A book signing will follow her presentation. Books will be available to purchase at the event.

In her eleven novels, Joan Bauer explores difficult issues with humor and hope.   A New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and songwriter, Joan has won numerous awards for her books, among them the Newbery Honor Medal, the American Library Association's Schneider Family Book Award, two Christopher Awards, the LA Times Book Prize, the Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literary Prize, and the Golden Kite Award of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.  Joan has been a frequent guest on both local and national radio.

Through the State Department's professional speakers program, she has visited both Kazakhstan and Croatia where she spoke with students, writers, educators, and children at risk about her life and her novels. Joan has also been the recipient of the Judy Lopez Memorial Award, the ASTAL Award for Outstanding Contributions to Literature for Young People, the Michigan Thumbs-up! Award for Children's Literature, the Delacorte Prize for a First Young Adult Novel, the Pacific Northwest Library Association Award, the New Jersey Reading Association M. Jerry Weiss Award, the New England Booksellers Award, and the Boston Public Library's "Literary Light" Award.

Her novels have been chosen for many best book lists, among them, ALA Notable Books, ALA Best Books, ALA Quick Picks, American Bookseller Pick of the List, School Library Journal Best Books, Smithsonian Notable Children's Books, VOYA's Perfect 10s and the Texas Lone Star list. Her novel Rules of the Road was chosen as one of the top young adult books of the quarter century by the American Library Association.

She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, computer scientist Evan Bauer, and their intrepid wheaten terrier Max. She has one grown, brilliant, daughter and an equally brilliant son-in-law. Joan is a member of the Writers Guild of America East, the Authors Guild, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

 For more information about Joan Bauer, visit www.joanbauer.com

The Sherman Public Library is located at 421 N Travis St., Sherman, TX 75090.

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