Today we're talking one of the most awarded YA authors alive: A.S. King (she won the Printz Award twice!). She takes us back to her formative years of reading and writing, the fifteen years and eight novels she wrote before being published, and how Pick the Lock is in some ways a culmination of her talent and her lived experience. A wonderful conversation with a wonderful author.

Books mentioned during the conversation:

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak Howard and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M. T. Anderson Pick the Lock by A.S. King Switch by A.S. King Dig by A.S. King

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