SUSAN LINN
Saturday, June 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Psychologist Susan Linn makes a powerful case for the role of make-believe in healthy development and the links between play, creativity, and health in The Case for Make-Believe: Saving Play in Our Commercialized World (The New Press). Susan Linn, whose books include Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood, is a psychologist at Judge Baker Children's Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston. An award-winning ventriloquist, internationally recognized by her pioneering work using puppet therapy with children, she was mentored by the late Fred Rogers. (And in Seattle she's also known as Nancy Pearl's sister.)

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