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Hi Laurie! I cannot wait to read your book Speak but have read your novel Chains. What inspired you to write a novel about slaves from the Revolutionary War? How much research did you have to do in order to make the book more accurate, if any?

Laurie Halse Anderson I am so frustrated by the lack of information and conversation about the role of slavery in American history!!!! It's the root of all the racist BS that oppresses so many Americans today.

Slavery is America's Holocaust and we (esp my fellow white people!) need to own it, understand it, and recognize the implications it still has today.... if we are ever going to make America a country of justice and opportunity.

I've done done years of research and worked closely with a number of historians to try and get the history accurate. It's been an amazing project to work on.

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I've seen that you wrote several historical novels. Can you write historical novel set in medieval times or Sengoku Period?

Brittany Burgunder

Brittany Burgunder asked Laurie Halse Anderson:

Hi Laurie! I wanted to let you know how much you inspire me as a writer and how much I especially enjoyed reading Speak and Wintergirls. I am publishing my first memoir this January and am really nervous, but also equally excited. Were you nervous before you published your first book? Reading your books has given me a lot of confidence and courage in proceeding to follow my dreams. Thank you.

Duygu Özcan

Duygu Özcan asked Laurie Halse Anderson:

Hello, Mrs. Anderson. I work with Pegasus Publishing House in Turkey and I am currently translating your novel, 'The Impossible Knife of Memory' into Turkish. I wanted to introduce myself and I was wondering if I could pick your brains when I come across some hard to translate words or ambiguities. I will go ahead and leave my e-mail address here: duygu.ozcan@ymail.com hoping to get an e-mail from you! :) ?

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