Ohio has good reason to brag about our authors. Ohio literature has shaped American literature and society for two centuries! And now, the Ohio Reading Road Trip brings some of Ohio's greatest writers into middle school classrooms.

Program 1 (60 minutes)
This literary travelogue takes you to the hometowns of well-known Ohio authors including Louis Bromfield, James Wright, Carolyn Keene (Mildred Wirt Benson), Paul Laurence Dunbar and James Thurber. Historians, scholars, and writers talk about the works of these well-known authors as well as what shaped their writings.

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Program 2 (30 minutes)
Ohio authors Sharon Draper and Jim Arter answer questions from students around the state about their experiences, inspirations and writings.

Thursday ? 10:30 am -- 4/21

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