Bartoletti has been called a &ldquo\;fearl ess researcher.&rdquo\; She uses primary sources such as images\, photogra phs\, oral histories\, interviews\, letters and other archival materials t o breathe the past to life. Her nonfiction subjects include child labor\, the Great Irish Famine\, Hitler Youth\, the KKK\, the woman who became kno wn as Typhoid Mary and women's suffrage.
\nHer engaging work has rec eived dozens of awards and honors\, including the Newbery Honor\, the ALA Robert F. Sibert Award for Nonfiction\, the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for No nfiction\, the Jane Addams Children&rsquo\;s Book Award\, the YALSA Excell ence in Nonfiction Honor\, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor for picture book wr iting\, the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction\, the Pennsylvania Libr ary Association Carolyn W. Field award and the Children&rsquo\;s Book Guil d Nonfiction Award.
\nDespite writing about difficult subjects\, she insists that she has a good sense of humor\, no doubt a defense mechanism developed as a result of teaching eighth grade for eighteen years. She ho lds a BA in English from Marywood University\, an MA in English from the U niversity of Scranton\, and a Ph.D. in English from the State University o f New York at Binghamton\, where she won the Excellence in Research award. She lives with her husband and a dog named Charlie near Scranton\, Pennsy lvania.
\n\;Books will be available for sale and signing follow ing the event.
\nThis event is part of the True Lit Fayetteville Lit erary Festival\, now in its 9th year. \; The festival is in collaborat ion with the Fayetteville Public Schools\, Fayetteville Public Education F oundation\, University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Transla tion and Altrusa International of Fayetteville\, Arkansas.
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