Author Visit: A.S. King In-Person
The Friends of the Hershey Public Library welcome author A.S. King to the Hershey Public Library. Award-winning, nationally recognized local author and LGBTQ+ advocate A.S. King will speak, answer questions, and sign copies of her books.
King is the only author ever to win the Michael L. Printz Medal twice, having won it again in 2024 for The Collectors, a story anthology, making it the only anthology that has ever won the Printz. She has published many other highly-acclaimed novels including 2021’s SW/TCH, 2020 Michael L. Printz Award winner and LA Times Book Prize finalist DIG, 2016’s Still Life with Tornado, 2015’s surrealist I Crawl Through It, Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, Reality Boy, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Ask the Passengers, Everybody Sees the Ants, 2011 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Please Ignore Vera Dietz among others. She also writes acclaimed and bestselling Middle Grade Fiction as Amy Sarig King.
She is a former faculty member of several MFA writing programs and spends many months of the year traveling the country speaking to high school and university students, educators, and humans who care about the mental health of young people. She has recently launched a non-profit, Gracie’s House, which provides and maintains safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth in rural areas.
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Book Bar is our partner in selling A.S. King's books. Please visit Book Bar before the event so you can get it signed after the talk. Book Bar in Palmyra: https://www.bookbarus.com/
- Date:
- Saturday, March 29, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Meeting Room 1, Meeting Room 2
- Audience:
- School-Age (8-10 years) Teen (13-18 years) Tween (11-12 years)
- Categories:
- Sponsored by Friends of the Hershey Public Library Teen Program Tween Program