I'm always amazed at how Ellen Hopkins can convey so much in so few words, residing in a gray area between prose and poetry. Her latest novel in verse, "Sync," does exactly that as it switches between ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 “I’m not there to hurt kids. I’m there to help them,” Ellen Hopkins told The Daily Beast, addressing an eye-opening new report on book bans in the U.S. Jeff ...

In her verse novel Sync, author Ellen Hopkins’s first YA since People Kill People in 2018, 17-year-old twins Storm and Lake struggle to navigate the foster care system and all the complications that ...

It’s not exactly a title of honor: being one of the most banned authors in one of the most conservative states in the nation. And Ellen Hopkins doesn’t take pride in it. She doesn’t want her young ...

The most commonly banned author in America’s schools last year, according to a new PEN America report: Ellen Hopkins (523 instances of bans, affecting 19 of her books), followed by Sarah J. Maas (481 ...

In the minutes after author Ellen Hopkins finished her speech at Shadow Ridge High School on Monday morning, senior Aurora Figures’ eyes welled with tears. “That really hit home,” Figures told the Las ...

I’m always amazed at how Ellen Hopkins can convey so much in so few words, residing in a gray area between prose and poetry. Her latest novel in verse, “Sync,” does exactly that as it switches between ...