L.M. Elliott

Virginia author and 2023 VLA Cardinal Cup winner L.M. Elliott will speak on Thursday, October 17 at 1:00PM in Marriott Ballroom 4.

L. M. Elliott was a Washington, D.C. magazine journalist for 20 years before becoming a New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen historical and biographical fictions. Her YA/MG novels have won the Scott O'Dell, VLA Cardinal Cup, and Grateful American Book Prize for historical fiction, been named NCSS/CBC Notables, Bank St. College of Ed Bests, and been finalists for the VA, MD, VT, UT, KS, ME state readers awards. They include Under a War-Torn Sky; Bea and the New Deal Horse;  Louisa June & the Nazis in the Waves, and Hamilton and Peggy!. Learn more at www.lmelliott.com.

At VLA she'll be discussing Suspect Red, about the censorship and “witch hunts” of 1950s’ McCarthyism, and WALLS, a Kirkus Best YA Books of the Year set in 1961 Germany as the infamous Berlin Wall goes up.  Her upcoming Truth, Lies, and the Questions in Between (about Watergate) joins these last two books to form a loose trilogy about the Cold War, fraught political eras, and the dangers of disinformation, censorship, and polarization.

The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Mid-Atlantic Region

The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators will host events and author signings in booths 604 and 606 in the Exhibit Hall. View the schedule of events below.