James Klise
Born: in Peoria, Illinois
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Klise was born in Peoria and currently resides in Chicago. Biography: James Klise is a high school librarian, supervisor of the high school literary journal and teen book club as well as the Gay-Straight Alliance advisor at Chicago International Charter School Northtown Academy. His short stories have appeared in many journals, including ''StoryQuarterly'', ''New Orleans Review'', ''Ascent'', and ''Southern Humanities Review''.
Awards:
- '''''Love Drugged'''''
- -- Stonewall Honor Award, 2011
- -- ALA Rainbow List of Recommended GLBTQ Books for Young Readers, 2011
- -- Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2011
- -- Top 250 LGBTQ Books for Teens, 2015 '''''The Art of Secrets'''''
- -- ILLINIOS READS Book, 2015
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Website: http://www.jamesklise.com
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Selected Titles
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The art of secrets / ISBN: 1616201959 OCLC: 854828668 When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagers alike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations. |
| The art of secrets : ISBN: 9781622313341 OCLC: 874135049 When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagers alike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations. |