Day for Book Lovers with Alice McDermott and Stephanie Powell Watts

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Carroll County Public Library Presents the Seventh Annual Day for Book Lovers

with Alice McDermott and Stephanie Powell Watts

Monday, September 18 from 10am-3pm

McDaniel College, Decker Center Forum, Westminster

Individual Ticket - $49 (includes lunch and copies of The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott and No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts)

Tables of Eight are available for $392

Day for Book Lovers is held in partnership with the Friends of Carroll County Public Library, McDaniel College, HarperCollins Publishers, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers.

About Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott is the author of several novels, including Child of My Heart, Charming Billy (National Book Award winner), and Pulitzer Prize finalists That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This. McDermott is the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Her new book is The Ninth Hour, a powerfully affecting story, spanning the twentieth century, of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn; available on September 19.

Special thanks to Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers. Author photo by Jamie Schoenberger. 

About Stephanie Powell Watts

Stephanie Powell Watts won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for her debut story collection, We Are Taking Only What We Need (2012), also named one of 2013's Best Summer Reads by O: The Oprah Magazine. Her short fiction has been included in two volumes of the Best New Stories from the South anthology and honored with a Pushcart Prize. She will be discussing her debut novel, No One Is Coming to Save Us, which she describes as "Imagine The Great Gatsby set in rural North Carolina, nine decades later, with desperate black people." No One Is Coming to Save Us is Sarah Jessica Parker's inaugural pick for American Library Association's Book Club Central. 

Special thanks to HarperCollins Publishers. Author photo by Bob Watts.