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Let me start by saying that Ruta Sepetys is a spectacular speaker. As in mind blowing, jaw dropping, side splitting, hands down one-of-the-best-visiting-authors-in-the-world good. If you get the chance to book her at your library, do so! We had the great fortune to have her as our visiting author last week and she enchanted teachers, students, and parents alike with her remarkable stories.

Ruta started her adult life as a failed opera singer (her words, not mine!), a fact that led her to work behind the scenes in the music industry for 22 years. She came to writing later in life, although her interest in stories manifested itself in all of her many previous endeavors. Indeed, what makes her such an engaging speaker is her own personal narrative. From working on the Halo games to helping singers craft their stories for American Idol to managing well known bands, Ruta has consistently forged her own path and collected countless stories along the way.

Fans of her two books, Between Shades of Gray (2012 Morris Award Finalist) and Out of the Easy (2014 Top Ten Best Fiction

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Ruta Sepetys

Ruta Sepetys was born in 1967 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She attended Hillsdale College to study opera, but then graduated with a BS in International Finance.

Sepetys’ first novel »Between Shades of Gray« tells the story of 15-year-old Lina who is arrested in 1941 by the Russian secret services in 1941, and deported to Siberia together with her mother and brother, and ten thousand other Balts. To this day there is very little public awareness of Stalin’s genocide of the Baltic people, one of the darkest chapters in world history. Sepetys condenses the terrible atrocities of this time into a tense, emotional narrative by using simple language that nevertheless possesses great literary power, and achieves a careful balance between moments of tragedy and hope. While the characters in the novel are purely fictional, the storyline is based on actual events, which Sepetys researched intensely, also conducting interviews with survivors of the genocide. It was the personal biography of Septetys’ father, who left Lithuania as a young boy, that inspired her to write »Between

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Ruta Sepetys (also known as Rūta Šepetys; born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction. As an author, she is Number one in the New York Times, an international bestseller, and winner of the Carnegie Medal.

She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and the first American writer of young adult literature to speak at the European Parliament and NATO. Her work has been published in over sixty countries and forty languages and is currently developing for film and television.

Biography

She was born in a Lithuanian and American family in the USA. She is the youngest in a family of three children. Her father left Lithuania in 1940, then spent nine years in German refugee camps in 1949 and arrived in the United States.

Rūta Šepetys graduated from Hillsdale College, where she studied opera and international finance. Later continued her studies in France (Toulon and Nancy). After earning a master’s degree, she returned to the United States and worked in Los Angeles for thirteen years in the music business. She fou