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Great Authors at the Library
Champaign Public Library
200 West Green Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 403-2000
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WE ARE THRILLED to announce New York Times bestselling author Shelby Van Pelt as the next speaker in our Great Authors at the Library series. When she isn’t writing, she’s herding cats and wrangling children. Her debut novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures (Ecco, 2022) was an Instant New York Times Bestseller and a Read With Jenna Today Show book club pick. In 2023, she was awarded the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize from The Writer’s Center. Remarkably Bright Creatures has sold over a million copies. It has spent, in aggregate, a year-plus on the NYT Hardcover Bestseller list.
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she’s now missing the mountains in the Chicago area with her family.