Terry Trueman joins the Festival in cooperation with Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s Middle School.

Terry Trueman made his debut at as a young adult novelist at the age of 54 with Stuck in Neutral, which was inspired by Trueman’s son Sheehan’s life with cerebral palsy. The novel won the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award and is currently being adapted into a feature film with the actor Craig T. Nelson. A resident of Spokane, Washington, Trueman has published four additional young adult novels: Inside Out, Swallowing the Sun, No Right Turn, and Cruise Control, a companion to Stuck in Neutral. Trueman is also working on a three-book deal for HarperCollins, including the short story collection Bad Boys, which will also feature Spokane writers Chris Crutcher and Terry Davis. For more information, please visit http://www.terrytrueman.com.