Laurie Halse Anderson is the New York Times-bestselling author of many award-winning books including the groundbreaking, modern classic Speak, a National Book Award finalist which has sold over 3.5 million copies and been translated into 35 languages.
In 2023, Anderson was named the Laureate of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, long considered to be the de facto ‘Nobel Prize for Children’s Literature.’
A passionate spokesperson for the need to combat censorship, she has been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. She lives near Philadelphia. Go Birds!
Follow Laurie on Bluesky at @halseanderson.bsky.social, Instagram at halseanderson, and Facebook at lauriehalseanderson, or by visiting her website, madwomanintheforest.com.
Books in order of publication:
Young adult novels
Speak (1999)
Catalyst (2002)
Prom (2005)
Twisted (2007)
Wintergirls (2009)
The Impossible Knife of Memory (2014)
Speak: the graphic novel, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2018.
Historical novels
Fever 1793 (2000)
Seeds of America series, also referred to as “Chains: Seeds of America” series or simply “Chains” series.
Chains (2008)
Forge (2010)
Ashes (2016)
Rebellion 1776 (2025)
Children’s books
Ndito Runs (1996)
Turkey Pox (1996)
No Time for Mother’s Day (2001)
The Big Cheese of Third Street (2002)
Thank You, Sarah! The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving (2002)
Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution (2008)
The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School (2009)
Vet Volunteers series (Previously published by Pleasant Company under the title Wild at Heart)
Fight for Life: Maggie (2000)
Homeless: Sunita (2000)
Trickster: David (2000)
Manatee Blues: Brenna (2000)
Say Good-Bye: Zoe (2001)
Storm Rescue: Sunita (2001)
Teacher’s Pet: Maggie (2001)
Trapped: Brenna (2001)
Fear of Falling: David (2001)
Time to Fly (2002)
Masks (2002)
End of the Race (2003)
New Beginnings (2012)
Acting Out (2012)
Helping Hands (2013)
Treading Water (2014)
Left Behind (2016)
Graphic novels
Speak: The Graphic Novel, illustrated by Emily Caroll (2019)
Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed, illustrated by Leila Del Duca (2020)
Memoir
Shout: The True Story of a Survivor Who Refused to be Silenced (2019)
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