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Library After Hours: Author Visit with Ellen Oh!

Winter Reading Program

Join us for our 2020 Winter Reading Program Kick-off event... Library After Hours with Ellen Oh!

Join us for our 2020 Winter Reading Program Kick-off event... Library After Hours with Ellen Oh!

This event will be presented through Crowdcast. Registration is required.

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About the Author

Ellen Oh is the author of the Texas Bluebonnet Award nominated middle grade novel Spirit Hunters and its sequel, The Island of Monsters, the upcoming middle grade fantasy Dragon Egg Princess, as well as the highly-acclaimed, young-adult Prophecy trilogy (Prophecy, Warrior, and King). She is the editor of the middle grade anthology Flying Lessons and Other Stories and the YA anthology Thousand Beginnings and Endings. She is also the co-founder of We Need Diverse Books, the groundbreaking, grassroots non-profit organization.

Growing up in Brooklyn, Ellen loved horror books, perhaps in part because her parents took her to a terrifying werewolf movie when she was only four years old. Ellen was mesmerized! As a young teen, she loved reading Agatha Christie mysteries and Stephen King novels, especially Cujo and Salem’s Lot. Her high school English teacher encouraged her to write creatively, but Ellen didn’t pursue a career in writing right away. She attended college at New York University and then studied law at the Georgetown University Law Center. For years, she practiced corporate and entertainment law, but she no longer does and doesn’t miss it all!

It was a 2000 article in Time magazine about Genghis Khan that jumpstarted Ellen’s writing career and ignited her obsessive fascination with ancient Asian history, especially Korean history. Ellen loves martial arts films, adores K-pop, thinks Avatar: The Last Airbender series is the best animated show ever created, randomly quotes lines from The Princess Bride, and knows that Krispy Kreme doughnuts are her kryptonite.

These days, she lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband and three teenaged children…who she loves to scare. It’s her favorite thing to do!

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