Monica Hesse is a national bestselling author from

Normal, Illinois Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 52,736. Normal is the smaller of two principal municipalities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, and Illinois' seventh most ...

. She is the recipient of the

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for Best Young Adult Mystery for her book ''Girl in the Blue Coat'', and the Society for Feature Journalism's Narrative Storytelling award. She is a feature writer for ''

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'' where in 2018 she was appointed first ever gender columnist.

Works

* 2016 – ''Girl in the Blue Coat'' * 2017 – ''American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land'' * 2018 – ''The War Outside '' * 2020 - ''They Went Left''

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