On Monday, June 13th, at 7:00 p.m. the LaSalle Public Library, in partnership with multiple Illinois Libraries, will virtually host New York Times journalist Andrea Elliot for a discussion about her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City.

The first woman to win an individual Pulitzer in both Arts & Letters and Journalism, New York Times journalist Andrea Elliott’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City chronicles eight dramatic years in the life of a young girl named Dasani and her family as they move from shelter to shelter in New York. By turns heartbreaking and inspiring, Invisible Child is a story about the power of resilience, the importance of family, and the cost of inequality—told through the crucible of one remarkable girl.

Andrea Elliott is an investigative reporter for The New York Times and a former staff writer at The Miami Herald. Her reporting has been awarded a Pulitzer prize, a George Polk award, a Scripps Howard award, and prizes from the Overseas Press Club and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. She has served as an Emerson fellow at New America, a visiting journalist at the Russell Sage Foundation, a visiting scholar at the Columbia Population Research Center, and is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation grant.

The program is free and open to the public. It will be presented via Zoom. Register – https://bit.ly/3zfcYCa.
For more information, please contact the LaSalle Public Library at 815-223-2341.