2021 ASR

The year’s All-School Read selection is E. Lockhart’s No. 1 New York Times bestseller We Were Liars, a novel about family, betrayal, privilege, and one young person’s reckoning with a terrible mistake. Lockhart’s protagonist, Cadence, loves vacationing on her family’s private island until the fateful events of “Summer 15.” 

The trials and tribulations of the Sinclair family will provide the Berkshire community with an opportunity to engage with one of its core values: Integrity. Ms. Lockhart will visit campus at the start of the 2021-22 school year and initiate a yearlong campus dialogue about accountability, trust, and responsibility beneath the Mountain.

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E. Lockhart is the beloved author of fiercely intelligent novels that explore issues of morality, feminism, and heroism. We Were Liars was a break-out success, translated into 41 languages and named to numerous best-of-the-year lists including the Goodreads Choice Award and Amazon’s #1 YA novel of 2014. 

Also among her 11 novels are the National Book Award finalist The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and the New York Times bestseller and LA Times Book Prize finalist Genuine Fraud. 

Lockhart went to Vassar College and has a doctorate in English literature from Columbia University in the field of the 19th-century British novel. She has taught writing and literature at Columbia, Barnard, NYU, and Hamline University’s MFA Program in Writing for Children. In 2013 she chaired the committee on Young People's Literature for the National Book Awards.  

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