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The Main Event: Many Voices series returns with four captivating speakers. Victoria Christopher Murray, NAACP and Library Journal award-winning author, kicks off this year's series.
Victoria Christopher Murray, New York Times bestselling co-author of "The First Ladies":
Monday, September 25, 6:30 – 8 pm: Main Library Auditorium
Join us as Victoria Christopher Murray shares her newest title, "The First Ladies," co-authored with Marie Benedict.
Acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray has more than one million books in print. She has written more than twenty novels, including "Stand Your Ground," a NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Fiction, and a Library Journal Best Book of the Year.
In 2021, she teamed up with NYT Bestselling author Marie Benedict to co-author "The Personal Librarian," the remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian — who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept to make her dreams come true. In a new collaboration, Victoria Christopher Murray and Marie Benedict have co-authored their latest novel, "The First Ladies."
Jade Dellinger & David Giffels, authors of "The Beginning Was the End: Devo in Ohio":
Monday, October 23, 6:30- 8 pm: Main Library Auditorium
Co-authors Giffels and Dellinger come together with longtime friend Bob Ethington for a moderated discussion to share their rock biography "The Beginning Was the End: Devo in Ohio"
Jade Dellinger is director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College where he has curated shows, commissioned installations, hosted lectures, and held performances with artists including the Guerilla Girls, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, the Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin, and Devo's Gerald Casale.
David Giffels is the author of six books of nonfiction, most recently "Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America" (Hachette Books 2020), one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2020. His other books include the memoirs "Furnishing Eternity" (Scribner 2018) and "All the Way Home" (William Morrow 2008), both winners of the Ohioana Book Award, and "The Hard Way on Purpose" (Scribner 2014), a New York Times Book Review "Editors' Choice."
Yiyun Li, award-winning writer
Monday, November 6, 6:30 – 8 pm: Main Library Auditorium
Yiyun Li's books, which include five acclaimed novels, two short story collections, and two nonfiction books, are richly observed and deeply felt.
Her most recent novel, "The Book of Goose," won the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The New York Times Book Review noted, "Li [is] one of our finest living authors: Her elegant metaphysics never elide the blood and maggots." "The Book of Goose" was named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Financial Times, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME, Slate, NPR, Kirkus, Buzzfeed, and others.
Register online, in person, or by phone at 330.643.9015.
The programs are free, open to the public, and presented with support from the Friends of Main Library.
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