![]() Her father’s job requires the family to move often, but Anderson grounds herself by reading books from the library and joining a swim team.Īs she grows older and the family continues to move, her father’s alcoholism worsens. Anderson is born to an alcoholic preacher father who was traumatized during his time serving in World War II and a stoic and passive mother. ![]() In Part 1, Anderson details her coming of age and her internal journey to understand how her sexual assault impacted her view of the world. ![]() Shout’s poetic and sometimes non-linear style is similar to the style Anderson used in Speak, utilizing shorter chapters, poems, and fragments to convey how trauma changes the way sexual assault survivors perceive the world around them. She pulled from these experiences in to write her memoir. Anderson has used her platform to become an outspoken advocate against censorship. Speak is widely considered a classic of the young adult genre and has been adapted into a film and graphic novel of the same name. The novel detailed a rape survivor named Melinda who reverts to silence after her assault, and it became a best seller. ![]() Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times best-selling author whose book Speak was a 1999 National Book Award finalist. ![]()
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