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Jeanine Cummins

Jeanine Cummins

(IN PERSON AT CITY OPERA HOUSE) On Tues., May 20, Jeanine Cummins joins the National Writers Series

 

Jeanine Cummins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Dirt, which was an Oprah’s Book Club and a Barnes & Noble Book Club selection, as well as a #1 Indie Next pick. The novel has been translated into thirty-seven languages and sold more than three and a half million copies worldwide. Her other works include the memoir A Rip in Heaven, and the novels The Outside Boy and The Crooked Branch. She lives in New York with her husband, their two daughters, and their dogs.

Petrice Gopo

Petrice Gopo

(IN PERSON AT KIRKBRIDE HALL) On Thurs., April 10, Patrice Gopo joins the National Writers Series

Patrice Gopo is an award-winning essayist who writes stories steeped in themes of place, belonging, and home. She is the author of two essay collections: Autumn Song: Essays on Absence (University of Nebraska Press American Lives Series) and All the Colors We Will See (a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection). Her debut picture book, All the Places We Call Home, is based on one of her essays. When she’s not writing, Patrice hosts the podcast Picture Books Are for Grown-Ups Too! because she believes in the power of stories to help build connections between people. Patrice lives with her family in North Carolina, where she enjoys walks just after dawn and thinks a perfect day ends with ice cream. Please visit www.patricegopo.com to learn more.

 

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 Vogue, InStyle, the Los Angeles Times, The Cut, The 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.

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.