Health & Fitness
Two really great "Meet the Author" programs this week!
We have something for everyone this week--Tuesday, June 4th at 7pm- Stephen Spignesi, author of Titanic for Dummies will give a talk. On Saturday, June 8th at 11am - Eloisa James, best selling Romance Novelist, will share her new book.
On Tuesday, June 4 at 7pm, Author Stephen Spignesi Titanic for Dummies will be here to present Titanic: The World’s Most Famous Sea Disaster 100 Years Later.
Stephen Spignesi is a bestselling author of more than 50 books about popular culture, television, film, American history, world history and contemporary fiction. Titanic for Dummies is his fourth Dummies book. The New Haven resident, who has been called “the world’s leading authority on Stephen King” by Entertainment Weekly, is also a novelist, the author of the psychological thriller, Dialogues. Spignesi lectures on a variety of popular culture and historical subjects and is a Practitioner in Residence at the University of New Haven and an Adjunct Professor at Gateway Community College.
Titanic: The World’s Most Famous Sea Disaster 100 years Later will include a slide presentation detailing an all-encompassing exploration of the ship. A question and answer session is planned with book signing to follow. The program will begin at 7 pm in the Library’s Lovell Room on June 4.
On Saturday, June 8th at 11 am Bestselling Romance Novelist, Eloisa James will be here to discuss her latest novel, Once Upon a Tower.
New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers and been published to great acclaim. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of James' very first novel that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar"; later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the bestseller lists.
After graduating from Harvard University, James got an M.Phil. from Oxford University, a Ph.D. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. In her professorial guise, she's written a New York Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from women's magazines such as Good Housekeeping and More to writers' journals such as the Romance Writers' Report.
Meet-the-Author: Eloisa James will be held in the Lovell Room of the Stratford Library on Saturday, June 8 at 11 am. Autographed copies of Once Upon a Tower will be available for purchase. Light refreshments will be served. Seating is limited.
Both programs are free and open to the public. If you have any questions on either program please call 203-385-4162.
