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Ordinary Hazards: Nikki Grimes's 2020 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Speech
I’ve always believed that my coming-of-age story is the single most important story I had to tell. I didn’t imagine that it would take me quite so long to tell it, though I shouldn’t have been surprised. Ordinary Hazards is easily the most difficult work I’ve ever written. Memoir is...
The Writer's Page: Navigating the N-Word
The mere mention of the n-word is usually cause for conversation and consternation, to put it mildly. Whenever used in a song lyric or a piece of literature, dialogue and debate are quick to follow. Even so, the n-word is a brick wall I occasionally crash into, on purpose, whenever...
BGHB 2020: Ordinary Hazards
Welcome to Nonfiction week of our first-ever, month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration. Today, chair Julie Danielson introduces the 2020 BGHB Nonfiction Honor Book Ordinary Hazards: The 2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Nonfiction is presented to Nikki Grimes for Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir published by...
Nikki Grimes Talks with Roger
Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here. Sponsored by Boyds Mills & Kane As detailed below, Nikki Grimes started this verse memoir thirty-nine years ago. Why it took so long is just one of the questions Nikki and I...
Review of Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes High School Wordsong/Boyds Mills 325 pp. 10/19 978-1-62979-881-3 $19.99 As poetically written as Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming (rev. 9/14) with a story as hard-hitting as Sapphire’s Push. In her author’s note, poet Grimes (winner of the 2017 Children’s Literature Legacy Award) says that...
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