American Writers Museum

THE MISSION OF THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM IS TO ENGAGE THE PUBLIC IN CELEBRATING AMERICAN WRITERS AND EXPLORING THEIR INFLUENCE ON OUR HISTORY, OUR IDENTITY, OUR CULTURE, AND OUR DAILY LIVES.


The American Writers Museum strives to:

  • Educate the public about American writers – past and present
  • Engage visitors to the Museum in exploring the many exciting worlds created by the spoken and written word
  • Enrich and deepen appreciation for good writing in all its forms
  • Motivate visitors to discover, or rediscover, a love of reading and writing
  • Inspire the young writers of tomorrow
Água Viva Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter Binti: The Complete Trilogy
American Writers Museum

AWM Staff Picks

Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood Parable of the Sower
American Writers Museum

2023 Author Programs

Anna In-Between
Cane
Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (Loa #338)
Felon: Poems
The Homesteader
Invisible Man
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole
Native Son
Passing
A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
A Raisin in the Sun
Red at the Bone
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics & Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks: (American Poets Project #19)
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale The Bluest Eye A Separate Peace
American Writers Museum

Banned Books Reading List

Tofu Takes Time Eyes That Speak to the Stars Watercress
American Writers Museum

14 Picture Books Featuring Asian Families by 14 Asian American Authors

Dark Testament: And Other Poems
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
States' Laws on Race and Color
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
Pauli Murray: Shouting for the Rights of All People
Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life
Pauli Murray: The Life of a Pioneering Feminist and Civil Rights Activist
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
Grandad's Camper Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle Adventures with My Daddies
American Writers Museum

9 LGBTQ+ Themed Children's Books

Best Worst American: Stories
A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age
Check, Please! Book 1: # Hockey
Citizen Illegal
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Dragonfish
Each Tiny Spark
Good Morning, Aztlan: The Words, Pictures and Songs of Louie Perez
Gun Island
Gwan Anthology
The House of Broken Angels
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
The Incendiaries
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood
Chance: Escape from the Holocaust: Memories of a Refugee Childhood
A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs
Here We Are: To Migrate to America... It's the Boldest Act of One's Life
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole
Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation
The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream
What They Meant for Evil: How a Lost Girl of Sudan Found Healing, Peace, and Purpose in the Midst of Suffering
I Offer My Heart as a Target / Ofrezco Mi Corazã3n Como Una Diana
The Book of Ruin
Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
Fugitive Atlas: Poems
Never Look Back
Good Trouble: Stories
The Ninth Hour
Chance: Escape from the Holocaust: Memories of a Refugee Childhood
Historically Inaccurate
Separated: Inside an American Tragedy
Every Day We Get More Illegal
The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
Check, Please! Book 1: # Hockey