adult literature
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For one thing, I don't know of another adventure story that has a gay protagonist, at least in adult literature.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2022
Lee Galda Pellegrini Bloomington, Minn. The writer is emerita professor of children’s and young adult literature at the University of Minnesota.
From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2022
Kacen Callender took home the young adult literature prize for “King and the Dragonflies,” and gave one of the night’s most tearful speeches.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2020
George Takei of “StarTrek” fame shared a prize for best young adult literature by an author of Asian Pacific background.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2020
The public of Warton's day had relegated all tales about knights, dragons, and enchanters to the nursery, and Thomas Warton shows courage in insisting that they are excellent subjects for serious and adult literature.
From Some Diversions of a Man of Letters by Gosse, Edmund