Harriette Gillem Robinet, the acclaimed author of 12 historical novels for young adults, will receive the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame's Fuller Award at a ceremony on Tuesday, March 14. The ceremony will take place at Dominican University's Performing Arts Center, starting at six p.m.; a reception with appetizers and drinks will follow. Speakers include Linda Robinet, Nora Brooks Blakely, Athena Williams, Frank Lipo, Glennette Tilley Turner, and Tsehaye Geralyn Hébert.

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Robinet will be the 14th recipient of CLHOF's highest honor for living writers. Robinet's Twelve Travelers, Twenty Horses started a career that has over the past three decades earned her recognition from such prestigious organizations as the Friends of American Writers and Midland Authors. She's won a Carl Sandburg Award and a Scott O'Dell Award, and been a finalist for an Edgar Award, a Willam Allen White Award, a Texas Bluebonnet Award, and a Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award. Walking to the Bus Rider Blues was recognized as Jane Addams Award Honor book in 2001.

The Hemingway Foundation is a co-sponsor of this event