First Draft Episode #269: Martha Brockenbrough

brockenbrough.squarespace.com/">Martha Brockenbrough, faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and author of nonfiction for young adults, including Unpresidented, Alexander Hamilton: Revolutionary, and novels like The Game of Love and Death and her newest picture book, This Old Dog.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• Laurel Snyder, author of Orphan Island, My Jasper June, and more

• Jonah Lehrer‘s partially discredited book was Imagine: How Creativity Works (and a New York Times article about the scandal around him)

• Maureen Johnson, author of the Truly Devious series and many more (listen to her First Draft interview here)

• The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

• Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak, Chains, and memoir-in-verse Shout

• Cornelia Funke, author of the Inkheart series

• Andrea Davis Pinkney, author of With the Might of Angels, Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down, and MANY more

• Jean Feiwel, Feiwel & Friends

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