The Greater Rochester

Teen Book Festival

"To foster a community effort to celebrate and promote reading by connecting teens and authors."

Brent Hartinger                                 Book List

Brent Hartinger has been writing books for fifteen years, but didn’t sell any of them until the summer of 2001. Since then, he has sold nine novels, including the teen novels: Geography Club; The Last Chance Texaco; a sequel to Geography Club called The Order of the Poison Oak; and Grand & Humble.

Mr. Hartinger's book honors include being named a Book Sense 76 Pick (three times), an IRA Notable Book, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, a Booklist Top Ten First Young Adult Novel, and an InsightOut (Bookspan) Book Club Main Selection.

Also a playwright and a screenwriter, Mr. Hartinger has both a stage and screen adaptation of Geography Club in development.

He lives south of Seattle with another novelist, Michael Jensen, his partner since 1992. He has counseled dozens of teenagers, both as co-facilitator of Oasis, a 200-member gay teen support organization he helped found, and as a counselor at a group home for troubled young people.