Author Talks, Banned Books: Teen Banned Book Club | Run: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell
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Join us in the Bloomingdale Library Teen Center for an in-person celebration and book discussion of Run: Book One, part of NYPL's Teen Banned Book Club.
Throughout the year, The New York Public Library's Teen Banned Book Club is offering free digital access to young adult titles that have been the subject of bans or challenges as part of our Freedom to Read initiative.
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ABOUT THE BOOK: As Run: Book One opens, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has passed, yet the Ku Klux Klan is as strong as ever and police racism is widespread. Meanwhile, the U.S. is increasingly embroiled in the Vietnam War. This award-winning graphic memoir—a follow-up to the National Book Award–winning March trilogy—continues the story of civil rights icon and congressman John Lewis (1940–2020), covering his time on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the buildup to the assassination in 1968 of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Free digital access to Run: Book One is made possible through the generosity of Abrams.
About Andrew Aydin
Andrew Aydin (he/him) is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a National Book Award winner, a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Honoree, a Printz Award winner, a Sibert Medal winner, a Walter Dean Myers Award winner, a three-time Eisner award winner, and the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors.
Andrew is creator and co-author of the graphic memoir series, MARCH and RUN, which chronicles the life of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. Co-authored with Rep. Lewis, MARCH was the first comics work to ever win the National Book Award.
About Nate Powell
Nate Powell (he/him) is a National Book Award-winning cartoonist who began self-publishing comics as an Arkansas teenager in 1992.
His work includes the new graphic novel Fall Through and a comics adaptation of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, as well as Save It For Later, civil rights icon John Lewis' March trilogy and its follow-up Run. Powell’s work has also received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, multiple Eisner and Ignatz Awards, ALA and YALSA distinctions, the Comic-Con International Inkpot Award, and the CXC Transformative Work Award.