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Click here to add your own text and edit me.           Hershey, PA

Oct 16, 17                                                       School visits                                        West Palm Beach, FLA

Oct 18-20                                                        F.A.M.E.

 I started out with the Creative Arts Team, specializing in HIV/AIDS prevention and conflict resolution workshops. Paul Griffin is the sort of writer you're torn between telling the whole world about and keeping all to yourself."—Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief

"When Friendship Followed Me Home is both a beautiful book, and an honest book; it is, in fact, beautiful because it is honest.

Gracefully answers questions and solves mysteries, leaving us with hope and a smile."

CATHI HANAUER

New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice

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Jan 31                                                               PS 32                                                 Brooklyn, NY

Feb 28                                                              NYPL/WHEELS HS                         Washington Heights, NYC

April 5                                                              Belmont and Crossroads                    Brooklyn, NY

April 26 - 29                                                    April is for Authors                            Palm Beach, Florida

May 31                                                            BEA SLJ Day of Dialogue                 NYC, NYU

June 8                                                              Syosset Library                                   Syosset, NY

June 22-25                                                      American Library Association            Chicago, IL

Sept 26-Oct 3                                                  Saving Marty tour                               TBA

October 9                                                        Keystone State Reading Assoc.

paul griffin author biography search engine

These days I work with organizations like Literacy for Incarcerated Teens and Behind the Book. This is Paul Griffin's best book yet—and that's really saying something."  

—Patricia McCormick,

author of  Sold

Nebraska Golden Sower State Masterlist

Georgia Children's Book Award Finalist

Japan's Sakura Medal finalist

Indiana Young Hoosier Masterlist

Audiobook read by Paul, available from Listening Library

 

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Spanish, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Hungarian,

Italian, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Romanian

I'm a paragraph.

Paul started working with at-risk, incarcerated and special needs teens in 1989, with a concentration in conflict resolution workshops aimed at stemming the spread of violence, substance abuse and HIV/AIDS among young adults. Cheer for Ben and Halley: it is kids like these who are our hope.”  —Gary D. Schmidt,

author of Okay for Now

"'Friendship' is an absolutely beautiful, heart-expanding book.

 I washed dishes with Vin Diesel. It's easy.

I'm a paragraph. I live with my family, human and canine, in New York City, which is chock-full of stories, not to mention characters. 

PHOTO CREDIT: FRANCISCO ALIWALAS

Biography

After graduating Dartmouth College with a BA in Film Studies, I was well-prepared to find work as a butler and bartender, a cook and an EMT, a dog trainer, a driver.

Gorgeously rendered. This book will leave you breathless. Seeing young people learn how to tell their life stories in ways that might bring them a step closer to realizing their dreams----that's like finding treasure. Seeing young people learn how to tell their life stories in ways that might bring them a step closer to realizing their dreams—-that’s like finding treasure.

I washed dishes with Vin Diesel. The hardest and best work was the teaching. That novel and many others went unpublished. It's easy.

Review | Stay With Me

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“Funny, wrenching, often heartbreaking.