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Alua Arthur

Alua Arthur

(IN PERSON AT CITY OPERA HOUSE & LIVESTREAMED) On Thurs., May 1, Alua Arthur joins the National Writers Series

 

Alua Arthur is the most visible and active death doula working in America today. She is a recovering attorney and the founder of Going With Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization. A frequent guest on TV and radio, Arthur has been featured on CBS’s The Doctors and in Disney’s Limitless docu-series with Chris Hemsworth, as well as in national print media outlets, such as VogueInStyle, the Los Angeles TimesThe CutThe New Yorker, and the New York Times.

International newspaper features on Arthur include Brazil’s Estadão and Norway’s Årets Avis. She has appeared on dozens of podcasts, and a Refinery29 video feature on Arthur and her work received ten million views across social platforms. In non-pandemic times, she travels the country and world as a keynote speaker, addressing audiences of several hundred to several thousand people at medical and end-of-life conferences, universities, seminaries, senior citizens’ communities, and more.

Rick Atkinson

Rick Atkinson

(IN PERSON AT CITY OPERA HOUSE & LIVESTREAMED) On Wed., May 14, Rick Atkinson joins the National Writers Series

 

A winner of Pulitzer Prizes for history and journalism, Rick Atkinson has produced a remarkable oeuvre of bestselling history that includes the Liberation Trilogy (the first volume, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943, received the Pulitzer in History), The Long Gray Line, Crusade, In the Company of Soldiers, and, most recently, The British Are Coming, the critically acclaimed first volume of his eagerly anticipated Revolution Trilogy.

A multi-week New York Times bestseller, The British Are Coming won the George Washington Prize (awarded by Mount Vernon and its partners), the New-York Historical Society’s Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize, the Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award, and the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award.

Jonathan Eig

Jonathan Eig

(IN PERSON AT CITY OPERA HOUSE & LIVESTREAMED) On Thurs., March 13, Jonathan Eig joins the National Writers Series

 

Jonathan Eig is a former senior writer for The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times bestselling author of Ali: A Life, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season. Ken Burns calls him “a master storyteller.”

Leif Enger

Leif Enger

(IN PERSON AT CITY OPERA HOUSE & LIVESTREAMED) On Tues., April 22, Leif Enger joins the National Writers Series

 

Leif Enger grew up in Osakis, Minnesota, and worked as a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio before writing his debut novel Peace Like a River, which sold more than a million copies and was named one of the Year’s Best Books by Time Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. His second novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, was also an award-winning national bestseller. His third novel Virgil Wander was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was named a best book of the year by Amazon, Library Journal, Bookpage, and Chicago Public Library. He lives with his wife in Duluth, Minnesota.

Jennifer Weiner

Jennifer Weiner

(IN PERSON AT CITY OPERA HOUSE & LIVESTREAMED) On Wed., April 9, Jennifer Weiner joins the National Writers Series

 

A #1 New York Times bestselling author, Jennifer Weiner’s books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list with over 11 million copies in print in 36 countries. Jennifer has appeared on many national television programs, including The Today Show and Good Morning America, as well as #RichkidsofBeverlyHills and, as herself, on Younger.

Her essays, including “Mean Girls in the Retirement Home” and “First, I Cried; Then, I Rode My Bike,” have topped the list of trending online articles in The New York Times and been reprinted in newspapers and media outlets across the world.

Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks

(IN PERSON AT LARS HOCKSTAD AUDITORIUM, Central Grade School, 301 Seventh Street, Traverse City, MI & ...

 

Geraldine Brooks is the author of six novels, including Horse, People of the Book, Year of Wonders, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning March. She has also written acclaimed works of nonfiction, including Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Her writing has been translated into over 25 languages and has collectively sold millions of copies around the world. Born and raised in Australia, Brooks now divides her time between Sydney and Martha’s Vineyard.

Scott Turow

Scott Turow

Virtual Event Only On Thurs., Feb. 27, Scott Turow joins the National Writers Series

 

Scott Turow, a writer and former practicing lawyer, is the author of thirteen bestselling works of fiction, including Presumed Innocent and most recently, Suspect. Mr. Turow has also published two nonfiction books, including One L, about his experience as a law student. His books have been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into movies and television projects.

He has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic.