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Letters About Literature
2012 Level 1 First Place Winner

Elena DeBré
Individual Entry, Los Angeles
Wrote to Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird

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2012 Level 2 First Place Winner and National Honorable Mention

Ian Tindel
Individual Entry, Newhall
Wrote to Piers Anthony, author of On a Pale Horse

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2012 Level 3 First Place Winner

Ame Chang
Individual Entry, Redding
Wrote to Arthur Conan Doyle, author of A Scandal in Bohemia

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Letters About Literature is an annual national contest for students in grades 4 through 12. The students are invited to write a letter to an author (living or dead), in which he or she explains just how the author's work has changed the student's life or view of the world.
Finalists and Semi-Finalists