Adding to his Emmy, Grammy, TV Land and NAACP awards, LeVar Burton has just won the Chicago Tribune’s Young Adult Literary Award. He will receive the hone in June at the 2015 Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago. In a statement from the newspaper, senior vice president and editor Gerould Kern said, “Through his passion, imagination and belief in inspiring your people, LeVar Burton has instilled the hoy of reading, in all its glorious forms, in countless readers and made an impact on many young lives.”

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