Sports involves much more than playing ball. Athletes face and resist societal issues of equity and social justice. Three award-winning authors of memoir, biography and fantasy provide unique perspectives on the risks and challenges that go far beyond the game.
| Where: | Stocker Foundation Children/Teen Stage (Seats 1000) |
| When: | Sun, Mar 7, 2021, 9:00 am - 10:00 am  Watch broadcast |
| Genre: | Children / Teens |
| Moderator: | Tracy Smiles |
New York Times best-selling author Andrew Maraniss writes sports-and history-related nonfiction, telling stories with a larger social message. His new book,"Singled Out," is a biography of Glenn Burke, the first openly gay Major League Baseball player and inventor of the high-five....
Neal Shusterman is the New York Times best-selling and award-winning author of "Challenger Deep," which won the National Book Award, "Scythe," a Michael L. Printz Honor title, "Dry," "Bruiser," which was on twelve state lists, "The Schwa Was Here," and the UnWind series, among many other books....
Gene Luen Yang writes and sometimes draws comic books and graphic novels. "American Born Chinese," his first graphic novel, was a National Book Award finalist as well as the winner of the Printz Award and an Eisner Award....
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