Davenport University is hosting Openly Straight, featuring award-winning author Bill Konigsberg today, September 23 at the W.A. Lettinga Campus here in Grand Rapids from 12 noon to 1 p.m.  Konigsberg's debut novel, Out of the Pocket, won the Lambda Literary Award in 2009. His second novel, Openly Straight, won the Sid Fleischman Award for Humor and was a finalist for the Amelia Elizabeth Warren Award and Lambda Literary Awards in 2014. Booklist called it “one of the best gay-themed novels of the last ten years.”

Prior to turning his attention to writing books for teens, Bill was a sports writer and editor for ESPN.com and The Associated Press. In 2001, Bill became the first openly gay male at ESPN when his essay, “Sports World Still a Struggle for Gays,” was published on the front page of ESPN.com. He has spoken about his very public coming out at venues across the country.

Davenport University, W.A. Lettinga Campus, is at 6191 Kraft Ave, SE.

 

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