Jerry Craft is the New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal winning author of the graphic novel, New Kid.  His second graphic novel, Class Act, was published on October 6, 2020. Craft is also the creator of Mama’s Boyz, an award-winning comic strip which won the African American Literary Award five times. He is a cofounder of the Schomburg Center’s Annual Black Comic Book Festival. He received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts.

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William Kent Krueger is the author of Ordinary Grace (winner of the Edgar Award for best novel), and its companion novel This Tender Land, as well as eighteen acclaimed books in the Cork O’Connor mystery series set in the north woods of Minnesota, including Desolation Mountain and 2021’s Lightning Strike. His last nine novels were all New York Times bestsellers. He will be interviewed by novelist Hallie Ephron.

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