Greenhill Hosting Authors in October
Thanks to the Greenhill Cultural Arts Committee, Greenhill will welcome Derrick Barnes and Kenny Gould to campus on October 6 and 7.
The Greenhill Cultural Arts Committee is delighted to welcome visiting authors, Derrick Barnes and Kenny Gould, to campus. Kenny Gould will host a writing workshop for our sixth-grade students, and Derrick Barnes will meet with our second-grade, third-grade, and fifth-grade students. Read more about them and their books below.
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Kenny Gould, a Florida-based science fiction and fantasy author, will host a writing workshop with sixth-grade students. His first book, The Castle of 1,000 Doors, is about a famous athlete who has to fight his way through 10 levels of a magical dungeon… with only a talking potato for a weapon. It’s great for students who like high-stakes adventure and video games. His second book, The Potionmaster, was written in collaboration with a seventh- and eighth-grade class at a California school and is perfect for students who enjoy Harry Potter or Percy Jackson. |
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Derrick Barnes is a National Book Award Finalist for his graphic novel Victory. Stand!-Raising My Fist For Justice, which also won the YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award, and a Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. In 2020, he became the only author to win the Kirkus Prize twice for the New York Times bestseller, I Am Every Good Thing, which also won a Charlotte Huck Award and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor. His most recent work, The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze, was recently named a 2025 Kirkus Prize Finalist. He is a native of Kansas City, MO, but currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife, Dr. Tinka Barnes, and their four sons, the Mighty Barnes Brothers. |
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