Jim Shepard will discuss his latest book The Book of Aron at the Byram Shubert Library on Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 4 p.m.
The novel is set in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation and is told through the eyes of nine-year-old Aron. Aron, whose family is driven by the Germans to the ghetto, later encounters Janusz Korczak, the real-life child advocate during the Holocaust.
Shepard, a National Book Award Finalist in 2007 for his story collection, Like You’d Understand Anyway, has written seven novels and four story collections. In addition, his short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, the New Yorker, and Playboy, and four of his stories have been chosen as Best American Short Stories.
Jim Shepard was raised in Stratford, attended Trinity College and Brown University and is currently a professor at Williams College in Massachusetts.
AuthorsLive@Byram is sponsored by the Byram Shubert Library and Delta Kappa Gamma Greenwich chapter and is open to the community. Byram Shubert Library is located at 21 Mead Avenue. Diane’s Books will be present with books for purchase and signing.
