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Author of one of
Time Magazine’s All-Time 100 English-language novels
Set to Kick-off 2014 Spring Authors!
Authors! Series
Special to The Truth
The Authors! Authors! series, presented by The Blade and
arranged by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, is
hosting three internationally acclaimed and immensely
talented individuals
this Spring.
The series is scheduled to kick off this
Wednesday, March 5 with author Zadie Smith
(Stranahan Theater, 4645 Heatherdowns Blvd.). The celebrated
British novelist grew up in working class London, and is the
daughter of a black Jamaican mother and white English
father. Smith’s acclaimed novel White Teeth (2000)
was included in Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Best
English-language Novels. Her On Beauty (2005) was
shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the 2006
Orange Prize for
Fiction. Her recent novel NW
(2012) has been highly acclaimed, starred, and was
nominated for the 2013 Women's
Prize for Fiction.
On
Thursday, May 1
Series officials will welcome Rick Atkinson
(McMaster Center, Main Library, 325 Michigan St.). Born in
Munich, and raised in the United States, Atkinson has won
Pulitzer Prizes in history and journalism. He formally wrote
for the Washington Post before turning to writing on
military history. His Liberation Trilogy, with the third
book being published this year, The Guns at Last Night:
The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945, details the
history of the American role in the liberation of Europe in
World War II.
On
Wednesday, May 14
Authors! Authors! brings to the Greater Toledo area
The Fonz himself, Henry
Winkler (Stranahan Theater).
Winkler is unquestionably a cultural icon for his acting,
but may surprise as an equally
engaging advocate for literacy as well, having managed
Dyslexia throughout his life. He has reinvented himself for
every generation (as of late his acting appearances include
Arrested Development, Children’s Hospital, and Royal Pains.
Winkler is also the author of the semi-autobiographical
children’s book series Hank Zipzer: The World’s Greatest
Underachiever, which is being made into a children’s
television series on the BBC.
At each program, authors will speak for about an hour, followed by
a short question and answer session. After the program, they
will be available to sign copies of their works. Books will
be available for purchase at each program from Barnes &
Noble Booksellers. |
