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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Laurie Anderson
began her career as a freelance journalist, and worked for a time at The
Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1999, she wrote what is arguably her most
famous novel, Speak, which won numerous awards and was a The New York
Times best seller. Speak was adapted into a film in 2004, starring
Kristen Stewart in the lead role of Melinda Sordino. The following year,
Anderson wrote Fever, 1793, a historical fiction piece. In 2002, she
wrote Catalyst, set in the same high school as Speak, and featuring
cameo appearances from the earlier book's characters. A historical
fiction book, Thank You, Sarah! The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving was
also published in 2002.Laurie Halse Anderson became a finalist for the
prestigious National Book Award with her first work of fiction for young
adults, Speak. That 1999 novel won an array of honors for Anderson, the
author of three earlier picture books for younger readers, for its
searing portrayal of a fourteen-year-old girl who becomes mute after a
sexual assault.
