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Kathleen Hale

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Kathleen Hale was born in Wisconsin and graduated from Harvard in 2010. She is the author of two novels, NO ONE ELSE CAN HAVE YOU and NOTHING BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN (the latter is forthcoming from HarperTeen in 2015). She also writes pieces for places like Vice.com. One of her personal essays, “Quit Everything,” will appear in the collection NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE, forthcoming from Simon and Schuster this fall.

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  • January 7, 2024

    23. “Slenderman” with Kathleen Hale

    In 2014, 12-year-old Payton “Bella” Leutner was stabbed 19 times by two other tween girls. The crime was well publicized as the Slenderman stabbings because the two girls who committed the stabbing said a fictional character named Slenderman told them to do it. The girls were tried as adults for attempted murder (Payton lived) and…