Authors at JCPL presents Kelly Yang

JCPL welcomes the #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang to Authors at JCPL! The first 100 JCPL cardholders to register and attend will receive a free copy of The Take. Please, only one free book per library cardholder. Reciprocal Borrowers are not eligible for the free book. General admission tickets may be reserved by anyone; you do not need a library card to attend. Copies of the author's books will also be available for purchase through Wild Geese Bookshop.
Kelly Yang is also the winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature. She went to college at age thirteen and is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School. She is the founder of the Kelly Yang Project, a leading writing and debating program for children in Asia. She lived in Hong Kong for fifteen years, where she taught many parachutes and was a columnist for the South China Morning Post. Her writing has also been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic. Kelly currently lives in Los Angeles with her family. The Take is her first novel for adults.
*Please contact Kelly Staten ([email protected] or 317-738-9835) with accessibility or interpretive needs.

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