Author Kekla Magoon to discuss her work at IUSB and Clay International Academy
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SOUTH BEND — Indiana Authors Awards Tour and the Civil Rights Heritage Center present a conversation with Kekla Magoon and Kathy Burnette of Brain Lair Books at 6 p.m. Aug. 30 at Northside Hall at Indiana University South Bend.
Magoon will discuss her work and her experience as an Indiana writer with Burnette.
Also while in South Bend, Magoon will deliver talks to the students of Clay International Academy, a K-8 multilanguage immersion school.
A native of Fort Wayne, where she will speak Aug. 31, Magoon earned a bachelor’s degree in history at Northwestern University and has incorporated history and current events into many of her award winning novels and nonfiction books for children, middle grade readers and young adults.
Her novels include “The Rock and the River,” How It Went Down,” “Fire in the Streets,” “Light It Up,” “The Season of Styx Malone,” the Robyn Hoodlum adventure series and “X: A Novel,” a fictionalized account of Malcolm X formative years that she co-wrote with his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz.
Her nonfiction books include “Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People,” “The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership and Legacy,” “She Persisted: Ruby Bridges” and “Today the World Is Watching You: The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for School Integration 1957-58.”
She also has a master’s degree in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she now teaches, and serves on the Writers’ Council for the National Writing Project.
The Indiana Authors Awards Tour features a prominent Hoosier author in conversation with local writers and thought leaders with the goals of both highlighting Indiana’s national literary status and inspiring more residents to pick up a pen and write.
Admission is free, but tickets are required.
For more information, visit keklamagoonsouthbend.eventbrite.com and indianaauthorsawards.org.
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: YA author Kekla Magoon holds discussion at IUSB
