Adam Gidwitz is an award-winning author, producer, and storyteller for young people. He wrote the bestselling novel A Tale Dark & Grimm and its companions,adaptations of the darker and lesser-known Grimm fairy tales. His medieval epic The Inquisitor’s Tale won the Newbery Honor. He also wrote a Star Wars novel, The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi and the bestselling Unicorn Rescue Society series. His newest book is the bestselling Max in the House of Spies. Adam also created Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest, a podcast on which he tells real Grimm tales live to kids, and he produced the animated Netflix adaptation of his novel A Tale Dark & Grimm, which was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Series.
Gidwitz will be a Belknap Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of Music in Fall 2024. He will co-teach an undergraduate course with Steven Mackey (Music), titled “Opera without the Singing: Fables, Fairy Tales and Narrated Musical Theater.”
