Banned book author sold out talk now available

The Pickens County Library System partnered with Fiction Addiction Independent Bookstore and the Clemson Area African American Museum to bring author Jason Reynolds to the Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library in Easley on May 5th at 7:00pm.

For those who could not make it last week, or couldn’t get tickets before they sold out, Pickens County Libraries just posted the recording up on their youtube channel.

Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, a Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, and the recipient of many Coretta Scott King honors. He was also the 2020–2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.

Mr. Reynold’s new book, Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel, was released on May 2, 2023.

Below are images of the event, shared by Pickens County Library System.