Past Authors 2018
Poets Laureate
Poets Laureate Tracy K. Smith (U.S.) and Adrian Matejka (IN) to Visit
Franklin Branch
Fri / Sep. 7 / 12 p.m.
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Kelsey Timmerman
New York Times best-selling author to speak
White River Branch
Mon / Aug. 20 / 6-8 p.m.
Kelsey Timmerman is the New York Times best-selling author of the popular “Where Am I?” series, including “Where am I Giving?”, his latest book. Join Kelsey as he talks about his global travels to discover just where our food and clothes are from, who actually makes them and how best to “think globally and act locally.” This entertaining author talk will be followed by a book discussion of "Where Am I Eating?"
Linwood Barclay
#1 Internationally Best-Selling Thriller Author to Visit!
Franklin College - Custer Theatre (in Old Main on the corner of Branigin and Monroe Streets)
101 Branigin Blvd.
Franklin, IN 46131
Fri / Jul. 27 / 7 p.m.
Linwood Barclay is the #1 internationally bestselling author of seventeen thrillers including "No Time for Goodbye" and the epic "Promise Falls" trilogy. This visit to Franklin, IN will be just his third appearance of his North American book tour. Early reviews for this new novel are exciting with the king of thrills and chills himself, Stephen King, calling him a "suspense master."
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Dorothea Benton Frank
Meet the New York Times Best-selling Author during a Cocktail Hour and Chat
The Garment Factory Events
Fri / Jun. 8 / 7 p.m.
7-8 p.m. Cocktail Hour
8 p.m. Author Chat
Dorothea is The New York Times best-selling author of 17 novels including "Sullivan's Island," "The Land of Mango Sunsets," "The Last Original Wife," "All The Single Ladies" and "Same Beach Next Year."
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Victoria Aveyard
New York Times Best-selling Author of "Red Queen" to Visit
Clark-Pleasant Middle School
Sat / May. 19 / 1 p.m.
Victoria Aveyard is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the "Red Queen" series. Victoria was born and raised in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, a small town known only for the worst traffic rotary in the continental United States. She moved to Los Angeles to earn a BFA in screenwriting at the University of Southern California. She currently splits her time between the East and West coasts. As an author and screenwriter, she uses her career as an excuse to read too many books and watch too many movies.
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Francesca Zappia
Clark-Pleasant Middle School
Sat / May. 19 / 1 p.m.
Joining Victoria on tour is Francesca Zappia, author of the popular "Eliza and Her Monsters". The Indianapolis native was named Emerging Author Award Winner of the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award for 2017. When she is not writing, she’s drawing her characters, reading, or playing video games. She is also the author of "Made You Up" and Eliza Mirk’s favorite, "The Children of Hypnos," a biweekly serial novel posted on Tumblr and Wattpad.
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Edward Kelsey Moore
New York Times Best-selling Author and Cellist to Visit
White River Branch
Sat / Apr. 21 / 3 p.m.
Edward Kelsey Moore is The New York Times best-selling author of "The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues" and "The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat.” He is a professional cellist who has performed with acclaimed orchestras including Chicago Sinfonietta, the Joffrey Ballet Orchestra and the Chicago Philharmonic. His award-winning essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times and a number of literary magazines, including Ninth Letter, Indiana Review, African-American Review and Inkwell. Readers will enjoy the Indiana ties in Moore’s work.
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Lisa Scottoline
New York Times Best-selling Author to Speak at Franklin College
Franklin College, Branigin Room (Student Center)
Thu / Apr. 12 / 7 p.m.
Lisa Scottoline is The New York Times best-selling author of 30 novels including “Exposed,” “One Perfect Lie,” “Keep Quiet,” “Think Twice” and “Dirty Blonde.” Scottoline’s novels are known for their emotional, warm and down-to-earth characters which resonate with readers. She also writes a weekly column with her daughter Francesca for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled “Chick Wit.” She has served as president of Mystery Writers of America and has taught a course she developed, “Justice and Fiction” at The University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater.
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