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  • Date: November 4
  • Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm PT
  • Location: Lapis Theater
    1634 11th Ave.

Book Launch: The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

Join Hugo House in welcoming Kwame Alexander for a conversation around and reading from his highly anticipated new children’s book, The Door of No Return (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers).

For tickets and more information please visit Elliot Bay's Eventbrite page here.

Presented in partnership with the Seattle Public Library.

Kwame Alexander

Kwame Alexander

Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, and New York Times Bestselling author of 36 books, including SWING, BECOMING MUHAMMAD ALI, co-authored with James Patterson, REBOUND, which was shortlisted for prestigious UK Carnegie Medal, The Caldecott Medal and Newbery Honor-winning picture book, THE UNDEFEATED, illustrated by Kadir Nelson, and his NEWBERY medal-winning middle grade novel, THE CROSSOVER. A regular contributor to NPR's Morning Edition, Kwame is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, The Coretta Scott King Author Honor, Three NAACP Image Award Nominations, and the 2017 Inaugural Pat Conroy Legacy Award. In 2018, he opened the Barbara E. Alexander Memorial Library and Health Clinic in Ghana, as a part of LEAP for Ghana, an international literacy program he co-founded. He is the writer and executive producer of THE CROSSOVER TV series on Disney+. We are here to celebrate the release of book one of a new trilogy, THE DOOR OF NO RETURN.