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CANCELLED: Writer-in-Residence Karen Walker Thompson Reads

Karen Thompson Walker Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 1/12/2020
Start Time: 1:00 PM
End Time: 2:00 PM
Description:
 *This event has been CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Writer-in-Residence Karen Thompson Walker reads from "The Dreamers."

Award-winning author Karen Thompson Walker joins DPL as the second
writer-in-residence. Register for her writing workshop, hear her read from her latest novel "The Dreamers," and sit one-on-one with her to review your work during office hours.

Karen Thompson Walker is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels, "The Dreamers," which has been optioned for television by Fox 21 and is a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice pick, and "The Age of Miracles," which was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, an Indies Choice Award, and a Goodreads Choice Award and named one of the best books of the year by Financial Times, Publishers Weekly, People, O., The Oprah Magazine, and Amazon. Her work has been translated into 27 languages. Her TED Talk about fear and the imagination has been viewed more than 2 million times. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Portland, Oregon.

Books available for sale after the reading. Q&A and signing to follow.


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Library: Downtown Bend Public Library
Location: CANCELLED
Contact: Paige M. Ferro
Contact Number: 541-312-1063
Presenter: Karen Thompson Walker
Link: The Dreamers