One Book Chelmsford - 2012

photo by Randi Baird

photo by Randi Baird

The Chelmsford Public Library will host Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz at the Chelmsford High School Performing Arts Center on Saturday, May 12, 2012, at 11 a.m. for a talk and book signing. This program is free and open to the public.

Horwitz is the bestselling author of Confederates in the Attic, A Voyage Long and Strange, Blue Latitudes and Baghdad without a Map. He is a prize-winning journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker.

Geraldine Brooks is the New York Times bestselling author of People of the Book, March (winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction) and Year of Wonders and the nonfiction works, Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Born and raised in Australia, she lives with her husband, Tony Horwitz, on Martha’s Vineyard. They have two sons.

Horwitz and Brooks are both currently on tour for their newest books. In Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War, Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to the bloody Civil War. Brooks’ latest release, Caleb’s Crossing, is inspired by the life of Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College in 1665.

*Tickets are not required for this program, but if you plan to attend you are encouraged to register on the Library’s online events calendar. It will help the library plan for the book signing.

You can read about these authors and their books at their websites:
http://geraldinebrooks.com
and
http://tonyhorwitz.com

A donation from Stop and Shop and funding from the Chelmsford Friends of the Library made it possible for us to purchase multiple copies of “March” and “Confederates in the Attic” for our community.

Be sure to catch these One Book programs in the upcoming months (click for details):

“One Book Chelmsford” 2012 Timetable

Wed May 2, at 7 p.m. main library
Bernie Ready presents ”Chelmsford and the Civil War”

Tuesday, May 8, at 7p.m. main library
“The Books of Tony Horwitz” by Michael Pierson

One Book Authors Visit
Saturday, May 12, at 11 a.m. at the CHS Performing Arts Center
Meet Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz

Past Programs:

Friday Morning Lecture Series on Jan 13:
Dick Howe presents "Making Sense of the Civil War"-available at library on DVD

Friday evening, February 3, 2012
"Beat the Winter Blues-Warm up to Reading!" -the annual Winterfest Community Social.

Fri. Feb 3, 7 p.m. main library
WinterFest Community Social

Thursday, Feb 9, at noon main library
“Now ...It’s Your Turn” in the fireplace room

Tues March 13, at 7 p.m. main library
“Geraldine Brooks and the Consciousness that Discovers the Story"
a lecture presented by UMass Professor Jeannie Judge

Fri March 23, at 7 p.m. main library
Coffee House with the Amoskeag Players

Tuesday, April 3, at 7 p.m. main library
Civil War Genealogy with Dennis Ahearn


Wednesday, April 11, at 7 p.m. main library "Torn in Two: Mapping the Civil War"
presented by Ronald Grim, Curator of Maps, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library

Thursday, April 12, at noon-main library “Now ...It’s Your Turn” in the fireplace room

Friday, April 20, at 7 p.m.
Coffee House with The International String Trio

Click here to read about past One Book programs