Dashka Slater
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Dashka Slater

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New York Times-bestselling author Dashka Slater has been telling stories since she could talk. An award-winning journalist who writes for such publications as The New York Times Magazine and Mother Jones, she is also the author of fifteen books of fiction and non-fiction for children and adults. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has won many awards, including the Wanda Gág Read Aloud Award. Dashka’s true crime narrative, The 57 Bus, has received numerous accolades, including the 2018 Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association, the 2018 Beatty Award from the California Library Association, the California Book Award Gold Award for Young Adult Literature, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor. It was a YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Finalist and an LA Times Book Award Finalist, in addition to receiving four starred reviews and being named to more than 20 separate lists of the year’s best books, including ones compiled by the Washington Post, the New York Public Library, and School Library Journal. In 2021, The 57 Bus was named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. The recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Dashka teaches at Hamline University’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program. She has spent most of her adult life in Oakland, California, where she is always working on far too many writing projects. Learn more at www.dashkaslater.com.
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The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story

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    • The 57 Bus

    • A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
    • Written by: Dashka Slater
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2017-11-03
    • Language: English
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    • Accountable

    • The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
    • Written by: Dashka Slater
    • Narrated by: Ariel Blake
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2023-08-22
    • Language: English
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