Join AuthorsLive@GreenwichLibrary on Monday, March 21 at 7 p.m. for an evening with journalist and investigative reporter Colin Woodard in the Library Meeting Room.
In American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle between Individual Liberty and the Common Good, Polk award-winning writer Woodard examines the history of and solutions to the key American question: how best to protect individual liberty while nurturing a free society.
Colin Woodard is state and national affairs writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, and a longtime foreign correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. He is a contributing editor at Politico and writes for Washington Monthly and The Chronicle of Higher Education and reviews books for the Washington Post. A native of Maine, he has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and seven continents, and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe. In 2014 he was named one of the “Best State Capitol Reporters in America” by the Washington Post and Journalist of the Year by the Maine Press Association.
Woodard is a graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago. He lives in Maine with his family.
Then, on Thursday, March 24 at 7 p.m. AuthorsLive welcomes Helen Simonson in the Cole Auditorium. Simonson’s debut novel, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, was a New York Times best seller, a best book of 2010 and cited as a favorite among book clubs worldwide.
Simonson’s new novel, The Summer Before the War, is set in East Sussex in the late summer of 1914 where a local matriarch pushes against the establishment for the appointment of a female Latin teacher. The true limits of progress are tested as the small town and its inhabitants go to war.
Helen Simonson was born in England and spent her teenage years in a small village in East Sussex. A graduate of the London School of Economics with an MFA from Stony Brook Southampton, she is a former travel advertising executive who has lived in America for the last three decades, both in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.
AuthorsLive@GreenwichLibrary is open to all at no charge. Books will be available for purchase and signing through Diane’s Books. Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. For more information visit greenwichlibrary.org/authorslive, email Marianne Weill at authorslive@greenwichlibrary.org or call 203-622-7933.
