![]() ![]() Chains, and the other two novels in the Seeds of America Trilogy, have received major acclaim, with Chains winning the prestigious Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Speak, which is about a high school student who is sexually assaulted, is loosely autobiographical-Anderson later published a memoir, Shout, about the sexual violence she experienced as a high school student. She published her first novel in 1996 ( Ndito Runs, about Kenyan Olympic marathon runners) but rose to fame in 1999 after publishing the young adult novel Speak. Following this, Anderson got a job as a journalist working for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Upon her return to the U.S., Anderson attended community college and ultimately graduated from Georgetown University in 1984 with a degree in languages and linguistics. As a teenager, she participated in an exchange program and spent a year on a pig farm in Denmark. Laurie Halse Anderson has loved reading and writing since she was a young child, but she never envisioned herself becoming a writer. ![]()
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