L. M. Elliott was a Washington, D.C. magazine journalist for 20 years before becoming a
New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen historical and biographical fictions. Her YA/MG novels have won the Scott O'Dell, VLA Cardinal Cup, and Grateful American Book Prize for historical fiction, been named NCSS/CBC Notables, Bank St. College of Ed Bests, and been finalists for the VA, MD, VT, UT, KS, ME state readers awards. They include
Under a War-Torn Sky; Bea and the New Deal Horse; Louisa June & the Nazis in the Waves, and
Hamilton and Peggy!. At VLA she'll be discussing Suspect Red, about the censorship and “witch hunts” of 1950s’ McCarthyism, and
WALLS, a
Kirkus Best YA Books of the Year set in 1961 Germany as the infamous Berlin Wall goes up. Her upcoming
Truth, Lies, and the Questions in Between (about Watergate) joins these last two books to form a loose trilogy about the Cold War, fraught political eras, and the dangers of disinformation, censorship, and polarization. Learn more at
www.lmelliott.com.