Humanizing Nonfiction Writers: An Interview with Melissa Stewart

When the ALA Youth Media Awards were announced on Monday, January the 25th it was notable that Nonfiction had quietly inserted itself into a great many categories. Really, only the John Steptoe Award, Batchelder (sorta), Stonewall, and Geisel failed to have any nonfiction representation. But before you all start jumping on the nonfiction bus and acting like you were there the whole time, let’s pay a bit of tribute to a woman that’s been beating the drum for informational fiction for a great numb...