Saturday, Oct 11th , 2025
7:00 pm
Bardavon 1869 Opera House
35 Market St
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(845) 229-5302
Throughout her life, Eleanor Roosevelt fought passionately for literacy, for the role of libraries in a democracy, and for the universal right to intellectual freedom. It is with this spirit that the Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards celebrate a group of authors whose voices have been banned, and the teachers, librarians, students, community activists, lawyers, and others who are fighting censorship.
This year's Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards ceremony will be held at the historic Bardavon 1869 Opera House. Hilarie Burton Morgan, star of "One Tree Hill," will be the moderator. Margaret Atwood, the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays, including "The Handmaid's Tale," will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Becky Calzada, the District Library Coordinator in Leander, Texas, and a co-founding member of Texas #FReadom Fighters, a grassroots group of librarians in support of intellectual freedom, will receive the Literary Freedom Award.
Also being honored are Matthew A. Cherry and Vashti Harrison for "Hair Love;" Malinda Lo for "Last Night at the Telegraph Club;" Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson for "And Tango Makes Three;" Juno Dawson for "This Book is Gay;" and John Green for "Looking for Alaska."
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