Award-winning children’s author Katherine Marsh will join the Friends of the Simsbury Public Library for an event in the Friends Program Room on Tuesday, October 3 at 6:30 p.m. to discuss her critically-acclaimed, middle-grade/YA novels Nowhere Boy and The Lost Year. Both books are incredibly timely, page-turning stories of family, courage, survival, and sacrifice.

Katherine Marsh is an award-winning author of novels for middle-grade readers including The Lost Year, a Junior Library Guild Selection; Nowhere Boy, winner of the Middle East Book Award; The Night Tourist, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery; Jepp, Who Defied the Stars, a New York Times Notable; and The Door by The Staircase. Katherine grew up in Yonkers, New York in the home of her Ukrainian grandma who taught her to love stories and borscht. A former journalist and managing editor of The New Republic, Katherine lives in Washington, DC with her husband, two children and an astonishing array of pets.