Challenging Assumptions: Valerie Tripp & the American Girl Series
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 10/06/18
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Valerie Tripp, an author in the "American Girl" book series that tells the stories of girls through U.S. history who are also depicted by a popular line of dolls, delivered the biannual Anne Scott MacLeod Children's Literature Lecture. Speaker Biography: Valerie Tripp is a prolific children's book author, best known for her work with the American Girl book series. She graduated with honors from the first co-educational class at Yale University in 1973. In 1981 she received a master's in education from Harvard University, where she focused on writing for young children and reading education. For transcript and more information, visit www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8161
