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Author Visits
One goal of the The Whipple Writing Fellowship is to provide opportunities for BHS students to meet and hear from authors who can inspire their own writing. We feature writers from a variety of genres and throughout the year. Find out more about who has visited our Whipple Writing Fellows below.

Jennifer De Leon
Author of YA novels "Borderless" and "Don't Ask Me Where I'm From", speaker, presenter and educator

Danielle Legros Georges
Former poet-laureate of Boston, translator, essayist, and academic

Michael Blanding
Investigative journalist and author of "The Map Thief" and "In Shakespeare's Shadow"

Kim Adrian
Author of "Dear Knausgaard", "Sock", and "The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet"

Grace Talusan
Author of "The Body Papers" and teaching professor in nonfiction writing at Brown

Whitney Scharer
whitneyscharer.com
Author of "The Age of Light"

Patricia Wen
Longtime journalist and former editor of the Boston Globe's Spotlight team
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