Association of Independent School Librarians

Year	Place	Skip Anthony Banquet Lecturer*
2024	Orlando, FL \| conference guide	Jerry Craft, author of New Kid, Class Act, and School Trip
2023	Santa Fe, NM	E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars
2022	Online	Pamela Harris, author of When You Look Like Us & Jenny Torres Sanchez, author of We Are Not From Here
2021	Online \| session materials	Christina Hammonds Reed, author of The Black Kids & Namina Forna, author of The Gilded Ones
2020	Houston, TX (canceled)
2019	Boston, MA \| session materials	Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked
2018	Atlanta, GA	Ruta Sepetys, author of Salt to the Sea
2017	New Orleans, LA	Rebecca Miller, editor of Library Journal
2016	Los Angeles, CA	Sam Wasson, author of 5th Avenue, 5am and Fosse
2015	Tampa, FL	Ken Dorsey, author of Florida Roadkill and the Serge Storms series
2014	Dallas - Fort Worth, TX	Kurt Eichenwald, author of The Informant
2013	Baltimore, MD	Kevin O’Malley, author of Animal Crackers Fly the Coop
2012	Denver, CO	Thomas J. “Dr. Colorado” Noe
2011	San Francisco, CA	Gennifer Choldenko, author of Al Capone Does My Shirts
2010	Nashville, TN	Robert Hicks, author of The Widow of the South
2009	Las Vegas, NV	Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple
2008	Toronto, ON	Deborah Ellis, author and activist
2007	Philadelphia, PA	Terry Gross, National Public Radio journalist
2006	Atlanta, GA	Terry Kay, author of To Dance with the White Dog
2005	New York, NY	Richard Peck, author of A Year Down Yonder
2004	Dallas, TX	Naomi Shihab Nye, poet, author, and anthologist
2003	Charlottesville, VA	John Cole, Director of The Center for the Book at the Library of Congress
2002	Pasadena, CA	Robin Rector Rupp, author and illustrator of Rainbow and You
2001	New England	James Gurney, author of Dinotopia
2000	Washington, DC	Diane Rehm, National Public Radio journalist
1999	Winston-Salem, NC	Jill McCorkle, author of The Cheerleader
1998	Portland, OR	Chet Orloff, Director of the Oregon Historical Society
1997	Baltimore, MD	Taylor Branch, author of Parting the Waters
1996	Washington, DC	David Maraniss, author of First in His Class
1995	Denver, CO	David Loertscher, AASL President
1994	Boston, MA	Robert Cormier, author of The Chocolate War
1993	Los Angeles, CA	Rebecca Rothenberg, author of The Bullrush Murders
1992	Washington, DC	Michael Dirda, editor of The Washington Post’s “Book World”
1991	St. Louis, MO	Glen Savan, author of White Palace
1990	San Francisco, CA	Joe Kane, author of Running the Amazon
1989	Washington, DC	Richard Jackson, publisher, Bradbury Press
1988	Washington, DC	I.F. Stone, journalist and author of The Trial of Socrates

*Skip Anthony was the librarian at the Ellis School in Pittsburgh. He was a founding member of AISL, ” a lifelong librarian, the best in the profession, and a friend to all of us “old-timers”. Active in our library organizations, he was always present to give advice, encouragement and support. His passing in 1990 saddened us all and was a tremendous loss to AISL.”–Mark Hillsamer, “AISL at Nine,” Library Connection, March 1996.