Ann Bausum

Jun 7, 2024 | slj.com | Ann Bausum |Chance Lee Joyner |Amira Rose |Michael Long

by (text) & illus. by Solomon Hughes . Apr. 2024. 32p. Tr $18.99. ISBN 9781478886426. COPY ISBN Gr 4 Up–This lyrical telling of Martin Luther King Jr.’s final days weaves three different texts together: the story of his trip to Memphis told by an omniscient narrator, King’s “Mountaintop” speech delivered the day before he was assassinated, and a gospel song by Thomas A. Dorsey that King requested before he was shot.

Apr 6, 2024 | writersdigest.com | Ann Bausum

When the First Folio was published 400 years ago, few could have predicted that it would become one of the most famous books in the English language. Copies sell for millions of dollars at auctions, and literary scholars pore over them for clues about the text, the making of the book, and the man it celebrates: William Shakespeare. (Why Writers Should Hang Out With Shakespeare.)Here are 13 things writers may not know about this mighty book. It was a first in more ways than one.

Jul 22, 2023 | journaltimes.com | Ann Bausum

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