Gene Yang, whose graphic novel, American Born Chinese, won the 2007 Michael L. Printz Award for young-adult literature, will present a talk on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 4:00 PM in the Central Library’s Mason O. Damon Auditorium. American Born Chinese, which tells the story of Jin Wang, a son of Chinese immigrants, who struggles to assimilate at a predominately white school after moving from San Francisco’s Chinatown to the suburbs, was named a 2006 finalist for the National Book Award in the young people’s literature category. This was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award. The presentation is free and open to the public.

  Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel Maus will speak at the Central Library on May 22, 2008.  Save the date - more details will follow.