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Authors at JCPL

Kelly Yang

2026-04-17 19:00:00 2026-04-17 21:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Authors at JCPL JCPL welcomes New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang to Authors at JCPL. Outside the Library -

Friday, April 17
7:00pm - 9:00pm

Add to Calendar 2026-04-17 19:00:00 2026-04-17 21:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Authors at JCPL JCPL welcomes New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang to Authors at JCPL. Outside the Library -

JCPL welcomes New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang to Authors at JCPL.

The first 100 JCPL Cardholders to register and attend will receive a free copy of The Take.

This event will be held at Beeson Hall, 396 Branigin Blvd, Franklin, IN 46131.

Doors: 6 p.m.

Event time: 7 p.m.

Reserve tickets through Eventbrite.

*Please contact Kelly Staten (kstaten@jcplin.org or 317-738-9835) with accessibility or interpretive needs.

Kelly Yang is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk, Three Keys, and Room to Dream and is the winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature. She went to college at age thirteen and is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard Law School. She is the founder of the Kelly Yang Project, a leading writing and debating program for children in Asia. She lived in Hong Kong for fifteen years, where she taught many parachutes and was a columnist for the South China Morning Post. Her writing has also been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic. Kelly currently lives in Los Angeles with her family. The Take is her first novel for adults.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Special Event |

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