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In partnership with the Madison Public Library Foundation, the Wisconsin Book Festival’s 23rd Annual Fall Celebration welcomed over 50 authors to discuss their books Oct. 17-20, including New York ...

It was during the COVID pandemic. George Floyd had just been murdered. Bestselling author Nicola Yoon was hurting. So she wrote. “It all had a really profound effect on me, like a lot of people. I was ...

Jasmyn Williams knows she should feel good about moving into a new community. But it's making her pretty uneasy. She, her husband and their young son have left a small Los Angeles apartment behind for ...

Bestselling young adult fiction author Nicola Yoon says she didn’t set out to write a book for adult audiences. But then the pandemic lockdowns happened, and so did the murder of George Floyd and so ...

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